(Post-) Colonialism across Europe

Transcultural History and National Memory

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Dirk Göttsche (Hg.), Axel Dunker (Hg.), (Post-) Colonialism across Europe (2014), Aisthesis Verlag, Bielefeld, ISBN: 9783849814861

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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.

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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.

Table of content

  • Frontcover
  • Titel
  • Impressum
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • Monika Albrecht: German Multiculturalism and Postcolonialism in Comparative Perspective
  • Isabel Hoving: Dutch Postcolonialism, Multiculturalism and National Identity: Society, Theory, Literature
  • Sarah De Mul: The Role of Subnational Identity in Belgian (Post-) Colonialism
  • Kirsten Thisted: Imperial Ghosts in the North Atlantic
  • Yves Clavaron: »La Francophonie« and Beyond
  • Paulo de Medeiros: Post-Imperial Europe: First Definitions
  • Florian Krobb: Defining Germanness Overseas
  • Heike Bartel: Colonial Myths – Classical Texts in (Post-) Colonial Perspective
  • Liesbeth Minnaard: Of a Chinese Merchant and a Chinese Monster
  • 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
  • Iulia-Karin Patrut: Conceptualizing German Colonialisms within Europe
  • Marijan Bobinac: Cultural Transfer in the Habsburg Empire
  • Milka Car: Literary Legacies of the Habsburg Empire in a Postcolonial Perspective
  • Anneli Saro: Superimposed Soviet Colonialism
  • Epp Annus: Layers of Colonial Rule in the Baltics
  • Notes on the Contributors
  • Backcover

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