German colonialism, visual culture, and modern memory
By: edited by Volker M. Langbehn.
Contributors: Langbehn, Volker Max, 1959-
Series: Routledge studies in modern European history -- 13
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780415997799; 9780203856901
Subjects: Racism -- Germany -- History; Racism -- Africa -- History; Visual communication -- Political aspects -- Germany -- History; Imperialism -- Social aspects -- Germany -- History; Popular culture -- Germany -- History; Collective memory -- Germany -- History; Germany -- Colonies -- Africa -- History; Africa -- Colonial influence; Africa -- Race relations; Germany -- Intellectual life
Notes: "Simultaneously published in the UK"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Picturing race : visuality and German colonialism / Volker Langbehn; title: German colonialism, 1884-1919; title: Postcards from the colonial war in Namibia (1904-1908) / Felix Axster; title: Harmless "Kolonialbiedermeier"? : colonial and exotic trading cards / Joachim Zeller; title: Cakewalking the anarchy of empire around 1900 / Astrid Kusser; title: Satire magazines and racial politics / Volker Langbehn; title: Demystifying colonial settlement : building handbooks for settlers, 1904-1930 / Itohan Osayimwese; title: Patriotism, spectacle, and reverie : colonialism in early cinema / Wolfgang Fuhrmann; title: German postcolonialism, 1919-present; title: Persuasive maps and a suggestive novel : Hans Grimm's Volk ohne Raum and German cartography in southwest Africa / Oliver Simons; title: Colonial disgust : the colonial master's emotion of superiority / Thomas Schwarz; title: Weimar revisions of Germany's colonial past : the photomontages of Hannah Höch and László Moholy-Nagy / Brett M. Van Hoesen; title: The "colonial idea" in Weimar cinema / Christian Rogowski; title: "The Black Jew" : an after-image of German colonialism / Birgit Haehnel; title: Reenacting colonialism : Germany and its former colonies in recent TV productions / Wolfgang Struck; title: Postcolonial amnesia : taboo memories and Kanaks with cameras / Deniz Göktürk.