(Post-)colonialism across Europe
Subtitle: transcultural history and national memory
By: Dirk Göttsche, Axel Dunker (eds.).
Series: Postkoloniale Studien in der Germanistik -- Band 7; Postkoloniale Studien in der Germanistik -- Bd. 7.
Publisher: Aisthesis
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Bielefeld
Language: eng
Number of pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9783849810733
Subjects: Postcolonialism; Postcolonialism in literature
Description: "Authors [in this volume] consider the repercussions of overseas colonialism across Europe, postcolonial migration, multiculturalism and postcolonial politics of memory, as well as the interface between colonialism and nationalism and the innovative cross-mapping of postcolonial research and Memory Studies."--Back cover.
Notes: Paper presented at a conference held on 13-15 September 2012 at the University of Bremen.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: I.; title: Theorizing postcolonialism(s) across Europe --; title: German multiculturalism and postcolonialism in comparative perspective : prolegomenon for the framework for a postcolonial Germany  -- Monika Albrecht; title: Dutch postcolonialism, multiculturalism and national identity : society, theory, literature  -- Isabel Hoving; title: The role of subnational identity in Belgian (post-)colonialism  -- Sarah De Mul; title: Imperial ghosts in the North Atlantic : old and new narratives about the colonial relations between Greenland and Denmark  -- Kirsten Thisted; title: La francophonie and beyond  -- Yves Clavaron; title: Post-imperial Europe : first definitions  -- Paulo de Medeiros -- II.; title: European literature and culture in postcolonial perrspective --; title: Defining Germanness overseas : colonialism and nationhood in nineteenth-century Germany  -- Florian Krobb; title: Colonial myths, classical texts in (post-)colonial perspective : the example of the Medea myth in German literature  -- Heike Bartel; title: Of a Chinese merchant and a Chinese monster : functions of exoticism in Dutch fin-de-siècle literature  -- Liesbeth Minnaard; title: Recent German novels on colonialism in international perspective  -- Axel Dunker; title: Memory and critique of colonialism in contemporary German and English historical novels about Africa  -- Dirk Göttsche -- III.; title: Conceptualizing internal European (post-)colonialisms --; title: Conceptualizing German colonialisms within Europe  -- Iulia-Karin Patrut; title: Cultural transfer in the Habsburg Empire : Croatia and German-language culture from a postcolonial pespective  -- Marijan Bobinac; title: Literary legacies of the Habsburg Empire in a postcolonial perspective : the example of Miroslav Krleža  -- Milka Car; title: Superimposed Soviet colonialism : the processing of Soviet memories in Estonian literature, theare and film  -- Anneli Saro; title: Layers of colonial rule in the Baltics : nation-building, the Soviet rule and the affectivity of a nation -- Epp Annus.