Contributor
Berman, Nina.
Imprint:Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2014]
Descriptionvi, 349 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Note:Introduction / Nina Berman, Klaus Muhlhahn, and Patrice Nganang -- Architecture with a mission : Bamum autoethnography during the period of German colonialism / Itohan I. Osayimwese -- "The Germans cannot master our language!" or, German colonial rulers and the Beti in the Cameroonian hinterlands / Germain Nyada (translated by Amber Suggitt) -- Sex and control in Germany's overseas possessions : venereal disease and indigenous agency / Daniel J. Walter -- Ruga-ruga : the history of an African profession, 1820-1918 / Michael Pesek -- Bomani : African soldiers as colonial intermediaries in German East Africa, 1890-1914 / Michelle Moyd -- Pioneers of empire? : the making of sisal plantations in German East Africa, 1890-1917 / Hanan Sabea -- "Zake: the Papuan chief" : an alliance with a German missionary in colonial Kaiser-Wilhelmsland (Oceania) / Gabriele Richter -- Germany and the Chinese coolie : labor, resistance, and the struggle for equality, 1884-1914 / Andreas Steen -- The other German colonialism" : power, conflict, and resistance in a German-speaking mission to China, ca. 1850-1920 / Thoralf Klein -- Nationalism and pragmatism : the revolutionists in German Qingdao (1897-1914) / Jianjun Zhu -- Anti-colonial nationalism and cosmopolitan "standard time" : Lala Har Dayal's Forty four months in Germany and Turkey (1920) / B. Venkat Mani -- "Acting cannibal" : intersecting strategies, conflicting interests, and the ambiguities of cultural resistance in Iringa, German East Africa / Eva Bischoff -- The "Truppenspieler Show" : Herero masculinity and the German colonial military aesthetic / Molly McCullers -- Recollection and intervention : memory of German colonialism in contemporary African migrant's writing / Dirk Gottsche -- The shadows of history : photography and colonialism in William Kentridge's Black box/Chambre noire / Andrew J. Hennlich -- Germans and the death throes of the Qing : Mo Yan's The sandalwood torture / Yixu Lu -- The origins of German minority cinema in colonial film / Patrice Nganang.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-331) and index.
Note:"German Colonialism Revisited brings together military historians, art historians, literary scholars, cultural theorists, and linguists to address a range of issues surrounding colonized African, Asian, and Oceanic people's creative reactions to and interactions with German colonialism. This scholarship sheds new light on local power dynamics; agency; and economic, cultural, and social networks that preceded and, as some now argue, ultimately structured German colonial rule. Going beyond issues of resistance, these essays present colonialism as a shared event from which both the colonized and the colonizers emerged changed. They contribute to current debates on transnational and intercultural processes and highlight the ways in which the legacy of the German colonial period is embedded in the global expansion of capitalism, technology, and the Western legal framework"-- Provided by publisher.
