Remembering Africa
Subtitle: the rediscovery of colonialism in contemporary German literature
By: Dirk Gottsche
Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture
Publisher: Camden House
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Rochester, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 485
ISBN-13: 9781571135469
Subjects: German literature; History and criticism; Imperialism in literature; Postcolonialism in literature; Germans; In literature
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-470) and indexes.