Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. List of Illustrations IX
4. Acknowledgements and Permissions XI
5. List of Abbreviations XII
6. Note on Translations, the Appendices, and Controversial Lexical Choices XIII
7. Introduction: The Mbwapwa Rhizome: Jewish Metamorphoses and the Colors of Difference 1
8. Chapter 1: Portrait of the African as a Jew – of the Jew as an African? 39
9. Chapter 2: Soap Powder, the Jews, and the White Man’s Country 121
10. Chapter 3: The German Empire, Africa, and the Jews 171
11. Chapter 4: Imag(in)ing the Other: Satire and Colonial Conflict 226
12. Chapter 5: Black Faces and Blackface: Mbwapwa, Mpundo, and the Variété 275
13. Chapter 6: Human Meat and Tortured Souls: Oskar Panizza 324
14. Conclusion: At the Fringes of the Mbwapwa Rhizome: Franz Kafka and Looming Conflagration 363
15. Appendix I: Max Jungmann: Briefe aus Neu-Neuland 383
16. Appendix II: Max Jungmann: Letters from New-Newland 398
17. Bibliography 419
18. Index 445