"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"--
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 womens and gender studies, social and cultural history, and imperial and colonial history.
This book addresses the intersection between gender and colonialism primarily in German colonialism.
Part 1:Intimacies
1. Farming Frontiers: The German Woman Pioneer
Patricia Anne Simpson
2. Working for Weihnachtsstimmung: German Womens Role in Recreating German
Culture and Identity in German Southwest Africa and German East Africa,
18941906
Kate McGregor
3. Colonialism and the Politics of Gender and Literature in the Netherlands
Indies: The Story of the Nyai
Carl Niekerk
4. Repairing Relations: Gendered Encounters in the Dutch East Indies in
Wilhelmina Kruijtboschs novel Het witte doek
Simon Richter
Part 2: Accountabilities
5. Reading Sojourner Truths Narrative (1850) as a Pioneering Literary
Denouncement of Dutch Colonialism
Jeroen DeWulf
6. German Women and the Dissemination of Colonial Ideology (19071920)
Adčle Douanla and Ésaie Djomo
7. White Women Saving White Men: Women Writers in Belgian and German Colonial
Literature
Robrecht De Boodt and Anke Gilleir
8. Colonial Revisionism and German Imperialism in Senta Dinglreiters
National Socialist Writings
Joseph Kebe-Nguema
9. Fire, Savannah, and Passion: The New Africa Novel and the Construction of
White Femininity
Verena Hutter
Part 3: Intersections
10. Colonial Philology and Its Erotic Imaginaries: Klidsas Sģakuntal in
Germany
Tanvi Solanki
11. Völkisch Nationalism and Its Unfolding in the Colonial Context: Adda von
Liliencrons Historical Novels Giovanna (1881) and Nach Südwestafrika (1906)
Aylin Bademsoy
12. Maria Theresia Ledóchowska as an Activist in the Religious Colonization
of Africa
Esaie Djomo and Dorine Mbeudom
13. From Colonialism to Contemporary Racism: Retelling (Male) Master
Narratives from the Perspective of Marginalized Women in Sharon Dodua Otoos
Fictional Texts
Martina Kofer
14. De-Naturalizing Gender and National Belonging: Literary and Essayistic
Interventions by Otoo and Yaghoobifarah
Helga Druxes
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 an Associate 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.