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Subject(s)

• German literature—19th century—History and criticism [Browse]
• German literature—20th century—History and criticism [Browse]
• Imperialism in literature [Browse]
• Colonies in literature [Browse]
• Women in literature [Browse]
• Literature—Women authors—History and criticism [Browse]
• Women—Germany—Colonies—Social conditions [Browse]
• Germany—Colonies—Race relations [Browse]

Editor

• Zhang, Chunjie [Browse]
• Krimmer, Elisabeth, 1967- [Browse]

Series

• Routledge research in gender and history ; 53. [More in this series]
• Routledge research in gender and history 53 [More in this series]

Biographical/​Historical note

Elisabeth Krimmer is a Professor of German at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of five monographs, including German Women's Life Writing and the Holocaust: Complicity and Gender in the Second World War, and the editor of fourteen volumes, including Realities and Fantasies of German Female Leadership: From Maria Antonia of Saxony to Angela Merkel. Chunjie Zhang is anAssociate Professor of German at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Transculturality and German Discourse in the Age of European Colonialism (2017) and the editor of Composing Modernist Connections in China and Europe (Routledge, 2019). She co-edited journal issues on world literature, the Enlightenment, and Asian German Studies.

Summary note

"This book addresses the intersection between gender and colonialism primarily in German colonialism. Gender and German Colonialism is concerned with colonialism as a historical phenomenon and with the repercussions and transformations of the colonial era in contemporary racist and sexist discourses and practices relating to refugees, migrants, and people of non-European descent living in Europe. This volume contributes to the broader effort of decolonization with particular attention to concepts of gender. Rather than focus on only one European empire, it discusses and compares multiple former colonial powers in context. In addition to German colonialism, some chapters focus on the role of gender in Dutch and Belgian colonialism in Indonesia, Africa, and the Americas. This volume will be of value to students and scholars interested in women's and gender studies, social and cultural history, and imperial and colonial history"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 06, 2023).

Contents

• Introduction / Elisabeth Krimmer and Chunjie Zhang
• Farming frontiers : the German woman pioneer / Patricia Anne Simpson
• Working for Weihnachtsstimmung : German women's role in recreating German culture and identity in German Southwest Africa and German East Africa, 1894-1906 / Kate McGregor
• Colonialism and the politics of gender and literature in the Netherlands Indies : the story of the Nyai / Carl Niekerk
• Repairing relations : gendered encounters in the Dutch East Indies in Wilhelmina Kruijtbosch's novel Het Witte Doek / Simon Richter
• Reading Sojourner Truth's Narrative (1850) as a pioneering literary denouncement of Dutch colonialism / Jeroen DeWulf
• German women and the dissemination of colonial ideology (1907-1920) / Adèle Douanla and Ésaie Djomo
• White women saving white men : women writers in Belgian and German colonial literature / Robrecht De Boodt, Anke Gilleir
• Colonial revisionism and German imperialism in Senta Dinglreiter's National Socialist writings / Joseph Kebe-Nguema
• Fire, savannah, and passion : the new Africa novel and the construction of white femininity / Verena Hutter
• Colonial philology and its erotic imaginaries : Kālidāsa's Sakuntalā in Germany / Tanvi Solanki
• Völkish nationalism and its unfolding in the colonial context : Adda von Liliencron's historical novels Giovanna (1881) and Nach Südwestafrika (1906) / Aylin Bademsoy
• "Get up Europe! Why do you sleep so much!" Maria Theresia Ledóchowska as an activist in the religious colonization of Africa / Esaie Djomo & Dorine Mbeudom
• From colonialism to contemporary racism : retelling (male) master narratives from the perspective of marginalized women in Sharon Dodua Otoo's fictional texts / Martina Kofer
• De-naturalizing gender and national belonging : literary and essayistic interventions by Otoo and Yaghooobifarah / Helga Druxes.

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ISBN

• 9781003378990 (electronic bk.)
• 1003378994 (electronic book)
• 9781003821762 (electronic book)
• 1003821766 (electronic book)
• 9781003821793 (electronic book)
• 1003821790 (electronic book)

LCCN

2023035462

OCLC

1404448010

Doi

• 10.4324/9781003378990

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