Gender and German Colonialism by Krimmer, Elisabeth; Zhang, Chunjie;

Short description:

This book addresses the intersection between gender and colonialism primarily in German colonialism.

Long description:

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.

Table of Contents:

Part 1: Intimacies

1. Farming Frontiers: The German Woman Pioneer

2. Working for Weihnachtsstimmung: German Women’s Role in Recreating German Culture and Identity in German Southwest Africa and German East Africa, 1894–1906

3. Colonialism and the Politics of Gender and Literature in the Netherlands Indies: The Story of the Nyai

4. Repairing Relations: Gendered Encounters in the Dutch East Indies in Wilhelmina Kruijtbosch’s novel Het witte doek

Part 2: Accountabilities

5. Reading Sojourner Truth’s Narrative (1850) as a Pioneering Literary Denouncement of Dutch Colonialism

6. German Women and the Dissemination of Colonial Ideology (1907–1920)

7. White Women Saving White Men: Women Writers in Belgian and German Colonial Literature

8. Colonial Revisionism and German Imperialism in Senta Dinglreiter’s National Socialist Writings

9. Fire, Savannah, and Passion: The New Africa Novel and the Construction of White Femininity

Part 3: Intersections

10. Colonial Philology and Its Erotic Imaginaries: Kālidāsa’s Sìakuntalā in Germany

11. Völkisch Nationalism and Its Unfolding in the Colonial Context: Adda von Liliencron’s Historical Novels Giovanna (1881) and Nach Südwestafrika (1906)

12. Maria Theresia Ledóchowska as an Activist in the Religious Colonization of Africa

13. From Colonialism to Contemporary Racism: Retelling (Male) Master Narratives from the Perspective of Marginalized Women in Sharon Dodua Otoo’s Fictional Texts

14. De-Naturalizing Gender and National Belonging: Literary and Essayistic Interventions by Otoo and Yaghoobifarah