Afrika and Alemania: German-Speaking Women, Africa, and the African Diaspora

Contributors

Introduction: Blackness, Germany, and Representation
Lisabeth Hock, Priscilla Layne, and Michelle James

Part I: The Black Diaspora and Self-Definition

1. “They Are the Next Generation”: An Interview with Sarah Blaßkiewitz
Priscilla Layne and Lisabeth Hock

2. Between Autofiction and the Archive: On/Travelling Olivia Wenzel’s 1,000 Coils of Fear (2020), Touching Tale or World Refracts Nation
Birgit Tautz

3. Postcolonial Ghana and the Legacy of Colonial Oppression in Amma Darko’s Novels
Priscilla Layne

Part II: Non-Black POC, Africa, and the African Diaspora

4. “Eingangstor zum Afrika” (Gateway to Africa): The Reconfigurations of Emily Ruete
Kate Roy

5. The Survivor as “Implicated Subject” in Stefanie Zweig’s Autobiographical Africa Novels Nirgendwo in Afrika (Nowhere in Africa) and Nirgendwo war Heimat: Mein Leben auf zwei Kontinenten (Nowhere Was Home: My Life on Two Continents)
Sarah Henneböhl

6. Making the Invisible Visible? Representations of Black Masculinity in Texts by Yoko Tawada
Lisabeth Hock

Part III: White Settler Colonialism and Its Legacies

7. German Cultural Superiority and Racial Hierarchy in Gabriele Reuter’s Glück und Geld
David Tingey

8. The Black Slave Martyr Reimagined for Christian Missions in Colonial Africa: Maria Theresa Ledóchowska’s Zaïda
Cindy Patey Brewer and Elizabeth Moye-Weaver

9. Rethinking the Periphery: Blackness in Eugenie Marlitt’s Im Schillingshof (1879)
Beth Mullner

10. White Feminism and the Colonial Gaze: Frieda von Bülow’s Diaries from German East Africa
Carola Daffner

11. Single White Female: Independent Women and Colonial Knowledge Production in German Colonial Fiction
Maureen Gallagher

12. Colonial Propaganda Fiction: Else Steup’s Backfisch Novels from the 1930s
Julia K. Gruber

13. Perspectives on Namibia by Contemporary White German-Speaking Women Authors
Lorely French

Index