Decolonization in Germany

The Author: Jared Poley is an assistant professor at Georgia State University, where he teaches European cultural and intellectual history and world history. He earned a doctorate in Modern European History in 2001 from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he was part of a rich intellectual environment that encouraged inter- and cross-disciplinary approaches to the study of the past.

• Contents: Colonial fiction and autobiography – Effects of colonial loss – Hanns Heinz Ewers (1871-1943) – Misogyny and imperial fantasies of empowerment – Expressionism and travel – Disease and metropolitan/colonial relationships – Colonial/postcolonial sexual violence – Metropolitan/colonial sexuality – Fantasies of hybrid combinations across the colonial/postcolonial divide – Rheinische Volkspflege – Alfred von Wrochem – Paul Rühlmann – Margarete Gärtner – Rhenish Separatism – Rheinische Frauenliga – Schwarze Schmach – German resistance to occupation, fantasies and anxieties of race – Racial and gender characteristics of Germans under French occupation – The occupation as inverted colonization – German analyses of the «colonization of the Rhineland by France».

«Poley’s book is a fascinating read and has much to offer students and researchers of German culture and literature as well as those interested in the effects of colonialism upon metropolitan society.» (Robbie Aitken, H-Net)