Zionism, the German Empire, and Africa : Jewish Metamorphoses and the Colors of Difference / Axel Stähler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stähler, Axel, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zionism.

Germany--Colonies--Africa.

Germany.

Germany--Colonies--Race relations.

Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (510 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

München ; Wien : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Zionism, the German Empire, and Africa explores the impact on the self-perception and culture of early Zionism of contemporary constructions of racial difference and of the experience of colonialism in imperial Germany. More specifically, interrogating in a comparative analysis material ranging from mainstream satirical magazines and cartoons to literary, aesthetic, and journalistic texts, advertisements, postcards and photographs, monuments and campaign medals, ethnographic exhibitions and publications, popular entertainment, political speeches, and parliamentary reports, the book situates the short-lived but influential Zionist satirical magazine Schlemiel (1903-07) in an extensive network of nodal clusters of varying and shifting significance and with differently developed strains of cohesion or juncture that roughly encompasses the three decades from 1890 to 1920.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements and Permissions

List of Abbreviations

Note on Translations, the Appendices, and Controversial Lexical Choices

Introduction: The Mbwapwa Rhizome: Jewish Metamorphoses and the Colors of Difference

Chapter 1: Portrait of the African as a Jew - of the Jew as an African?

Chapter 2: Soap Powder, the Jews, and the White Man's Country

Chapter 3: The German Empire, Africa, and the Jews

Chapter 4: Imag(in)ing the Other: Satire and Colonial Conflict

Chapter 5: Black Faces and Blackface: Mbwapwa, Mpundo, and the Variété

Chapter 6: Human Meat and Tortured Souls: Oskar Panizza

Conclusion: At the Fringes of the Mbwapwa Rhizome: Franz Kafka and Looming Conflagration

Appendix I: Max Jungmann: Briefe aus Neu-Neuland

Appendix II: Max Jungmann: Letters from New-Newland

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

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Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9783110583656

3110583658

9783110586039

3110586037

OCLC:

1076410618