This book examines how German-speaking women of diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds represent Africa and Blackness, foregrounding the challenges Black women face in defining and portraying Blackness, African identities, and Africa on their terms.
This book examines how German-speaking women of diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds represent Africa and Blackness, foregrounding the challenges Black women face in defining and portraying Blackness, African identities, and Africa on their terms.
Priscilla Layne is a professor of German at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Contributors Introduction: Blackness, Germany, and Representation Lisabeth Hock, Priscilla Layne, and Michelle James Part I: The Black Diaspora and Self-Definition 1. "They Are the Next Generation": An Interview with Sarah Blaßkiewitz Priscilla Layne and Lisabeth Hock 2. Between Autofiction and the Archive: On/Travelling Olivia Wenzel’s 1,000 Coils of Fear (2020), Touching Tale or World Refracts Nation Birgit Tautz 3. Postcolonial Ghana and the Legacy of Colonial Oppression in Amma Darko’s Novels Priscilla Layne Part II: Non-Black POC, Africa, and the African Diaspora 4. "Eingangstor zum Afrika" (Gateway to Africa): The Reconfigurations of Emily Ruete Kate Roy 5. The Survivor as "Implicated Subject" in Stefanie Zweig’s Autobiographical Africa Novels Nirgendwo in Afrika (Nowhere in Africa) and Nirgendwo war Heimat: Mein Leben auf zwei Kontinenten (Nowhere Was Home: My Life on Two Continents) Sarah Henneböhl 6. Making the Invisible Visible? Representations of Black Masculinity in Texts by Yoko Tawada Lisabeth Hock Part III: White Settler Colonialism and Its Legacies 7. German Cultural Superiority and Racial Hierarchy in Gabriele Reuter’s Glück und Geld David Tingey 8. The Black Slave Martyr Reimagined for Christian Missions in Colonial Africa: Maria Theresa Ledóchowska’s Zaïda Cindy Patey Brewer and Elizabeth Moye-Weaver 9. Rethinking the Periphery: Blackness in Eugenie Marlitt’s Im Schillingshof (1879) Beth Mullner 10. White Feminism and the Colonial Gaze: Frieda von Bülow’s Diaries from German East Africa Carola Daffner 11. Single White Female: Independent Women and Colonial Knowledge Production in German Colonial Fiction Maureen Gallagher 12. Colonial Propaganda Fiction: Else Steup’s Backfisch Novels from the 1930s Julia K. Gruber 13. Perspectives on Namibia by Contemporary White German-Speaking Women Authors Lorely French Index¿
Contributors Introduction: Blackness, Germany, and Representation Lisabeth Hock, Priscilla Layne, and Michelle James Part I: The Black Diaspora and Self-Definition 1. "They Are the Next Generation": An Interview with Sarah Blaßkiewitz Priscilla Layne and Lisabeth Hock 2. Between Autofiction and the Archive: On/Travelling Olivia Wenzel’s 1,000 Coils of Fear (2020), Touching Tale or World Refracts Nation Birgit Tautz 3. Postcolonial Ghana and the Legacy of Colonial Oppression in Amma Darko’s Novels Priscilla Layne Part II: Non-Black POC, Africa, and the African Diaspora 4. "Eingangstor zum Afrika" (Gateway to Africa): The Reconfigurations of Emily Ruete Kate Roy 5. The Survivor as "Implicated Subject" in Stefanie Zweig’s Autobiographical Africa Novels Nirgendwo in Afrika (Nowhere in Africa) and Nirgendwo war Heimat: Mein Leben auf zwei Kontinenten (Nowhere Was Home: My Life on Two Continents) Sarah Henneböhl 6. Making the Invisible Visible? Representations of Black Masculinity in Texts by Yoko Tawada Lisabeth Hock Part III: White Settler Colonialism and Its Legacies 7. German Cultural Superiority and Racial Hierarchy in Gabriele Reuter’s Glück und Geld David Tingey 8. The Black Slave Martyr Reimagined for Christian Missions in Colonial Africa: Maria Theresa Ledóchowska’s Zaïda Cindy Patey Brewer and Elizabeth Moye-Weaver 9. Rethinking the Periphery: Blackness in Eugenie Marlitt’s Im Schillingshof (1879) Beth Mullner 10. White Feminism and the Colonial Gaze: Frieda von Bülow’s Diaries from German East Africa Carola Daffner 11. Single White Female: Independent Women and Colonial Knowledge Production in German Colonial Fiction Maureen Gallagher 12. Colonial Propaganda Fiction: Else Steup’s Backfisch Novels from the 1930s Julia K. Gruber 13. Perspectives on Namibia by Contemporary White German-Speaking Women Authors Lorely French Index¿
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