German Colonialism, Visual Culture, And Modern Memory (Routledge Studies in Modern European History)

ISBN 10: 0415647975 / ISBN 13: 9780415647977

Published by Routledge, 2012

About this Item

Editor(s): Langbehn, Volker. Series: Routledge Studies in Modern European History. Num Pages: 328 pages, 54 black & white illustrations, 48 black & white halftones, 6 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 476. . 2012. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: German Colonialism, Visual Culture, And Modern Memory (Routledge Studies in Modern European History)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415647975
• ISBN 13: 9780415647977
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Investigating visual communication and mass culture, print culture and suggestive racial politics, racial aesthetics, racial politics and early German film, racial continuity and German film, and photography, German Colonialism, Visual Culture, and Modern Memory offers compelling evidence of a German society between 1884 and 1919 that produced vibrant and heterogeneous-and at times contradictory-cultures of colonialism.

About the Author

Volker Langbehn (Ph.D. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1998) is Associate Professor of German at San Francisco State University, California. He is the author of Arno Schmidt's Zettels Traum: An Analysis (2003) and has published articles on Friedrich Nietzsche, Christa Wolf, Arno Schmidt, Fritz von Unruh, Novalis and Gert Heidenreich, and the visual representation of German Colonialism. He is the co-editor with Dr. Mohammad Salama of Colonial (Dis)-Continuities: Race, Holocaust, and Postwar Germany (2010). His current book project tentatively titled The Visual Representation of Cultural Identity in German Mass Culture Around 1900 focuses on visual representations of Africa in German mass culture. It is a study of how racism can develop in a modern society through subtle, everyday means, and it explores the negative consequences of race thinking upon the long-term development of German identity. He examines how images of Africa and Africans contained in four types of media – political caricatures in satirical magazines, picture postcards, black-and-white photographs, and illustrated children’s literature – helped foster a racialized German national identity.