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Author:

Göttsche, Dirk, 1955-

Title:

Remembering Africa : the rediscovery of colonialism in contemporary German literature / Dirk Göttsche.

Publisher:

Camden House,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

viii, 485 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

German literature--20th century--History and criticism.
German literature--21st century--History and criticism.
Imperialism in literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Germans--Africa.
Africa--In literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Summary:

"This is the first comprehensive study of contemporary German literature's intense engagement with German colonialism and with Germany's wider involvement in European colonialism. Building on the author's decade of research and publication in the field, the book discusses some fifty novels by German, Swiss, and Austrian writers, among them Hans Christoph Buch, Alex Capus, Christof Hamann, Lukas Hartmann, Ilona Maria Hilliges, Giselher W. Hoffmann, Dieter Kühn, Hermann Schulz, Gerhard Seyfried, Thomas von Steinaecker, Uwe Timm, Ilija Trojanow, and Stephan Wackwitz. Drawing on international postcolonial theory, the German tradition of cross-cultural literary studies, and on memory studies, the book brings the hitherto neglected German case to the international debate in postcolonial literary studies"--Publisher website, July 5, 2013.

Series:

Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture

ISBN:

1571135464 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
9781571135469 (hardcover : acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)810122459

LCCN:

2013002132

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)