Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. Introduction: Blackness, Germany, and Representation 1
5. SECTION I The Black Diaspora and Self-Definition
6. 1 “They Are the Next Generation”: An Interview with Sarah Blaßkiewitz 23
7. 2 Between Autofiction and the Archive: On/Travelling Olivia Wenzel’s 1,000 Coils of Fear (2020): Touching Tale or World Refracts Nation 37
8. 3 Postcolonial Ghana and the Legacy of Colonial Oppression in Amma Darko’s Novels 57
9. SECTION II Non-Black POC, Africa, and the African Diaspora
10. 4 “Eingangstor zum Afrika” (Gateway to Africa): The Reconfigurations of Emily Ruete 81
11. 5 The Survivor as “Implicated Subject”1 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) 112
12. 6 Making the Invisible Visible? Representations of Black Masculinity in Texts by Yoko Tawada 132
13. SECTION III White Settler Colonialism and Its Legacies
14. 7 German Cultural Superiority and Racial Hierarchy in Gabriele Reuter’s Glück und Geld 153
15. 8 The Black Slave Martyr Re-imagined for Christian Missions in Colonial Africa: Maria Theresa Ledóchowska’s Zaïda (1889) 171
16. 9 Rethinking the Periphery: Blackness in Eugenie Marlitt’s Im Schillingshof (1879) 191
17. 10 White Feminism and the Colonial Gaze: Frieda von Bülow’s Diaries from German East Africa 210
18. 11 Single White Female: Independent Women and Colonial Knowledge Production in German Colonial Fiction 227
19. 12 Colonial Propaganda Fiction: Else Steup’s Backfisch¹ Novels from the 1930s 246
20. 13 Perspectives on Namibia by Contemporary White German-Speaking Women Authors 266
21. Index 285