(Post-) Colonialism across Europe

Transcultural History and National Memory
1. Erstauflage 2014
ISBN: 978-3-8498-1073-3
Verlag: Aisthesis Verlag

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 396 Seiten, PB, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 205 mm, Gewicht: 551 g

Reihe: Postkoloniale Studien in der Germanistik

This volume makes a substantial contribution to developing Comparative Postcolonial Studies within Europe. Theoretical inquiry into the diversity and interconnectedness of European colonial histories and postcolonial conditions combines with new approaches to conceptualizing internal European (post-) colonialisms, and case studies and comparative studies of the literature and culture of a broad range of countries and language areas, including Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Portugal, the former Habsburg region and the Baltics, along with the German language area, Britain and France. Authors 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. Transnational and comparative approaches are used to shed new light on the relationship between global developments and regional specificities, along with the interaction between (post-) colonial memory and (national) identity from the nineteenth century to the present day.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Göttsche, Dirk

Dunker, Axel

Weitere Mitwirkende

Albrecht, Monika

Annus, Epp

Bartel, Heike

Bobinac, Marijan

Car, Milca

Clavaron, Yves

De Mul, Sarah

Dunker, Axel

Göttsche, Dirk

Hoving, Isabel

Krobb, Florian

Medeiros, Paulo de

Minnaard, Lisbeth

Patrut, Iulia-Karin

Saro, Anneli

Thisted, Kirsten

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtspolitik, Erinnerungskultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Postkoloniale Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Postkoloniale Geschichte, Nationale Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

I. Theorizing Postcolonialism(s) across Europe

Monika Albrecht
German Multiculturalism and Postcolonialism in Comparative Perspective. Prolegomenon for the Framework for a Postcolonial Germany

Isabel Hoving
Dutch Postcolonialism, Multiculturalism and National Identity: Society, Theory and Literature

Sarah de Mul
The Role of Subnational Identity in Belgian (Post-) Colonialism

Kirsten Thisted
Imperial Ghosts in the North Atlantic. Old and New Narratives about the Colonial Relations between Greenland and Denmark

Yves Clavaron
La Francophone and Beyond

Paulo de Medeiros
Post-Imperial Europe: First Definitions

II. European Literature and Culture in Postcolonial Perspective

Florian Krobb
Defining Germanness Overseas. Colonialism and Nationhood in Nineteenth-Century Germany

Heike Bartel
Colonial Myths – Classical Texts in (Post-) Colonial Perspective. The Example of the Medea Myth in German Literature

Liebeth Minnaard
Of a Chinese Merchant and a Chinese Monster. Functions of Exoticism in Dutch Fin-de-siècle Literature

Axel Dunker
Recent German Novels on Colonialism in International Perspective

Dirk Göttsche
Memory and Critique of Colonialism in Contemporary German and English Historical Novels about Africa

III. Conceptualizing Internal European (Post-) Colonialisms

Iulia-Karin Patrut
Conceptualizing German Colonialism within Europe

Marijan Bobinac
Cultural Transfer in the Habsburg Empire. Croatia and German-Language Culture from a Postcolonial Perspective

Milka Car
Literary Legacies of the Habsburg Empire in a Postcolonial Perspective. The Example of Miroslav Krleža

Anneli Saro
Superimposed Soviet Colonialism. The Processing of Soviet Memories in Estonian Literature, Theatre and Film

Epp Annus
Layers of Colonial Rule in the Baltics Nation-Building, the Soviet Rule and the Affectivity of a Nation

Notes on the Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Dirk Göttsche is Professor of German at the University of Nottingham, Axel Dunker is Professor of Modern and Contemporary German Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Bremen.