Research Catalog

Title

"Europa ist nicht die Welt" : (Post)Kolonialismus in Literatur und Geschichte der westdeutschen Nachkriegszeit / Monika Albrecht.

Author

Albrecht, Monika

Publication

Bielefeld : Aisthesis, 2008.

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Description

308 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

"This study is a theoretically informed investigation of discourses on colonialism and its critique in the post-war period. It also addresses and disputes two assumptions prevalent in current scholarship. The first assumption emanates from current research in literary studies and contends that it was only in the course of the increasing political awareness from the mid-1960s onwards that German writers discovered the problems of colonialism and neo-colonialism. The second derives from the historical sciences where scholars claim that the 'cultural memory of the second postcolonial phase' in Germany 'which began after World War II and lasted well into the 1960s' is affected by 'processes of forgetting', also known as 'colonial' or 'postcolonial amnesia'."--Publisher's website

Alternative Title

• (Post)Kolonialismus in Literatur und Geschichte der westdeutschen Nachkriegszeit
• Postkolonialismus in Literatur und Geschichte der westdeutschen Nachkriegszeit

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Geschichte 1948-1970
• German literature > 20th century > History and criticism
• Postcolonialism in literature
• Race in literature
• Postcolonialism > Germany
• Collective memory > Germany

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-308).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9783895286964 (hd.bd.)
• 3895286966 (hd.bd.)

OCLC

262427486

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library