Remembering Africa

Remembering Africa
Author: Dirk Göttsche
Publisher: Camden House
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2013
Genre: History
ISBN: 1571135464

"This is the first comprehensive study of contemporary German literature's intense engagement with German colonialism and with Germany's wider involvement in European colonialism. Building on the author's decade of research and publication in the field, the book discusses some fifty novels by German, Swiss, and Austrian writers, among them Hans Christoph Buch, Alex Capus, Christof Hamann, Lukas Hartmann, Ilona Maria Hilliges, Giselher W. Hoffmann, Dieter Kühn, Hermann Schulz, Gerhard Seyfried, Thomas von Steinaecker, Uwe Timm, Ilija Trojanow, and Stephan Wackwitz. Drawing on international postcolonial theory, the German tradition of cross-cultural literary studies, and on memory studies, the book brings the hitherto neglected German case to the international debate in postcolonial literary studies"--Publisher website, July 5, 2013.

Dierk Schmidt

Dierk Schmidt
Author: Dierk Schmidt
Publisher: Walther Konig Verlag
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2010
Genre: Art
ISBN:

In 1884 - 85, the European powers and the USA met in Berlin to prepare the division of the entire African continent through an 'international' act of law. The series of pictures by Dierk Schmidt that was shown at documenta XII serves as a starting point in exploring the urgent question: Is it possible to respond to the brutality, with which colonial borders were forced upon existing societies, with a representation that makes legal abstractions tangible as a historic product of political and aesthetic modernism in Europe? The Division of the Earth is based on years of research and tackles, both visually and textually, the aesthetic-political, art historical and current legal facets of the growing international, post-colonial discussion.

Africa’s Struggle for Its Art

Africa’s Struggle for Its Art
Author: Bénédicte Savoy
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2022-04-05
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0691234736

"A major new history of how, between 1965 and 1985, African nations sought the restitution of works of art stolen during the colonial period, written by the most important and influential figure in the field"--

Washing the Negro White

Washing the Negro White
Author: Kwaku Adu-Opako
Publisher: Africa Research and Publications
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2007
Genre: Africa
ISBN:

A fascinating insight into the idea-historical recapitulation of the negative image of the African, which in the western concept of progress since the 17th century has been the focal point of his redemptive reconstruction. The crucial epistemological phases of such reconstruction are the concept of the Great Chain of Being, the theory of social evolution and the current post-colonial concepts of social modernisation to strip Africans of their cultural identity and render them to exploitation in the global economic and financial system.