Gender and German Colonialism

Elisabeth Krimmer is a Professor of German at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of five monographs, including German Women's Life Writing and the Holocaust: Complicity and Gender in the Second World War, and the editor of fourteen volumes, including Realities and Fantasies of German Female Leadership: From Maria Antonia of Saxony to Angela Merkel.Chunjie Zhang is an Associate Professor of German at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Transculturality and German Discourse in the Age of European Colonialism (2017) and the editor of Composing Modernist Connections in China and Europe (Routledge, 2019). She co-edited journal issues on world literature, the Enlightenment, and Asian German Studies.

• Part 1:Intimacies1. Farming Frontiers: The German Woman PioneerPatricia Anne Simpson2. Working for Weihnachtsstimmung: German Women’s Role in Recreating German Culture and Identity in German Southwest Africa and German East Africa, 1894–1906Kate McGregor3. Colonialism and the Politics of Gender and Literature in the Netherlands Indies: The Story of the NyaiCarl Niekerk4. Repairing Relations: Gendered Encounters in the Dutch East Indies in Wilhelmina Kruijtbosch’s novel Het witte doekSimon RichterPart 2: Accountabilities5. Reading Sojourner Truth’s Narrative (1850) as a Pioneering Literary Denouncement of Dutch ColonialismJeroen DeWulf6. German Women and the Dissemination of Colonial Ideology (1907–1920) Adèle Douanla and Ésaie Djomo7. White Women Saving White Men: Women Writers in Belgian and German Colonial LiteratureRobrecht De Boodt and Anke Gilleir 8. Colonial Revisionism and German Imperialism in Senta Dinglreiter’s National Socialist Writings Joseph Kebe-Nguema9. Fire, Savannah, and Passion: The New Africa Novel and the Construction of White Femininity Verena HutterPart 3: Intersections10. Colonial Philology and Its Erotic Imaginaries: Kālidāsa’s Sìakuntalā in GermanyTanvi Solanki11. Völkisch Nationalism and Its Unfolding in the Colonial Context: Adda von Liliencron’s Historical Novels Giovanna (1881) and Nach Südwestafrika (1906) Aylin Bademsoy12. Maria Theresia Ledóchowska as an Activist in the Religious Colonization of AfricaEsaie Djomo and Dorine Mbeudom 13. From Colonialism to Contemporary Racism: Retelling (Male) Master Narratives from the Perspective of Marginalized Women in Sharon Dodua Otoo’s Fictional TextsMartina Kofer14. De-Naturalizing Gender and National Belonging: Literary and Essayistic Interventions by Otoo and YaghoobifarahHelga Druxes