![]() ![]() Overall, this book demonstrates great strengths as well as some weaknesses. ![]() Part 5, "Unified Germany Worldwide," includes a chapter on how the white European imaginary shaped the idea of the "refugee crisis" (Jeffrey Jurgens), a reading of Christof Hamann's postcolonial novel Usambara (2007) using ideas about collective guilt and responsibility from Hannah Arendt (Priscilla Layne), and an interpretation of the Wende as an unmasking, using the perspectives of People of Color, refugees, and everyday East Germans to interrogate north/south and east/west binaries (Vanessa Plumly). The final article in this section, a case study of Christa Wolf's reception in Cuba (Jennifer Hosek), demonstrates that state socialist culture was not isolated but instead transnational in scope, offering new perspectives on revolutionary Cuba and its local and global connections to the GDR and highlighting the importance of collaborative research methods. ![]() Part 4, "Into the Cold War," presents chapters on both East and West Germany and their global entanglements, including a historiographic overview of the global GDR (Pugach), an account of post–World War II German–Libyan relations (Nicholas Ostrum), and a reading of West Germany's involvement in Moroccan decolonization (Brittany Lehman). Part 3, "The Third Reich and the World," contains chapters on understanding Nazi imperialism as part of the transnational history of empire (Pizzo), contradictions within Nazi discourse as exemplified by journalist Klaus Mehnert's Shanghai-based journal, XXth Century (Alan Rosenfeld), and the gendered idea of national sacrifice in the German-Japanese sports film Das heilige Ziel (1942 The holy goal) (Valerie Weinstein). Part 2, "World War I and Interwar Connections," includes chapters on the importance of Askari women's labor in wartime East Africa (Michelle Moyd), gift-giving and post-imperial relations between Ghanaians and former missionaries (Paul Glen Grant), and German scientists in South America (Ute Ritz-Deutch). Part 1, "Forming the Empire," contains chapters on Eugen Fischer's 1908 trip to Namibia to research the Rehoboth Basters (Lisa Todd), Emin Pascha as a national and imperial hero (Matthew Unangst), and how aspiring colonists conceived of Namibia as an extension of the German Heimat (homeland) (Blackler). The collection's sixteen chapters are organized chronologically into five sections. ![]() As the title implies, After the Imperialist Imagination endeavors to pick up where Sara Friedrichsmeyer, Sara Lennox, and Susanne Zantop's edited volume left off, and Sara Pugach, David Pizzo, and Adam Blackler have assembled an impressive collection that represents a variety of disciplinary and methodological approaches not only to the legacies of German colonialism and imperialism but to the embeddedness of modern Germany in global contexts more broadly. It is now more than twenty years since the publication of The Imperialist Imagination: German Colonialism and Its Legacy (1999), and its influence on the field of German studies is still felt. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |