{"product_id":"afrika-and-alemania-german-speaking-women-africa-and-the-african-diaspora-hardback-9781487547356","title":"Afrika and Alemania; German-Speaking Women, Africa, and the African Diaspora (Hardback) 9781487547356","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAfrika and Alemania\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eGerman-Speaking Women, Africa, and the African Diaspora\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePriscilla Layne (Author), Michelle Stott James (Author), Lisabeth Hock (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487547356\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 July 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e296 pages, 7 illustrations\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.9 x 2.3 cm, 0.56 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAfrika and Alemania\u003c\/em\u003e explores the representation of Blackness in German-speaking literary, autobiographical, and cinematic texts across two centuries. By examining how different groups of women with access to German culture have depicted Africa, Africans, and the African diaspora, the book challenges the assumption that all women will tell the same story. Focusing on Black women, non-Black women of colour, and white women, it investigates how these diverse voices engage with and represent Blackness within a society shaped by racial hierarchies. \u003cbr\u003ePart I analyses how Black, German-speaking women actively reshape and redefine Blackness in response to stereotypes upheld by white German society. Part II explores how non-Black women of colour navigate the complexities of othering while sometimes reproducing anti-Black stereotypes, while Part III discusses how white women’s projections of fantasies about Africa often erase Black voices and render them invisible. Offering a nuanced analysis of the intersections of race, gender, ethnicity, and nationality, \u003cem\u003eAfrika and Alemania\u003c\/em\u003e provides a vital framework for understanding Blackness within contemporary scholarship and its broader social and cultural implications.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Blackness, Germany, and Representation\u003cbr\u003eLisabeth Hock, Priscilla Layne, and Michelle James\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart I: The Black Diaspora and Self-Definition\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. “They Are the Next Generation”: An Interview with Sarah Blaßkiewitz\u003cbr\u003ePriscilla Layne and Lisabeth Hock\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Between Autofiction and the Archive: On\/Travelling Olivia Wenzel’s 1,000 Coils of Fear (2020), Touching Tale or World Refracts Nation\u003cbr\u003eBirgit Tautz\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Postcolonial Ghana and the Legacy of Colonial Oppression in Amma Darko’s Novels\u003cbr\u003ePriscilla Layne\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart II: Non-Black POC, Africa, and the African Diaspora\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. “Eingangstor zum Afrika” (Gateway to Africa): The Reconfigurations of Emily Ruete\u003cbr\u003eKate Roy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. The Survivor as “Implicated Subject” 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)\u003cbr\u003eSarah Henneböhl\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Making the Invisible Visible? Representations of Black Masculinity in Texts by Yoko Tawada\u003cbr\u003eLisabeth Hock\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart III: White Settler Colonialism and Its Legacies\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. German Cultural Superiority and Racial Hierarchy in Gabriele Reuter’s Glück und Geld\u003cbr\u003eDavid Tingey\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. The Black Slave Martyr Reimagined for Christian Missions in Colonial Africa: Maria Theresa Ledóchowska’s Zaïda\u003cbr\u003eCindy Patey Brewer and Elizabeth Moye-Weaver\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Rethinking the Periphery: Blackness in Eugenie Marlitt’s Im Schillingshof (1879)\u003cbr\u003eBeth Mullner\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. White Feminism and the Colonial Gaze: Frieda von Bülow’s Diaries from German East Africa\u003cbr\u003eCarola Daffner \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Single White Female: Independent Women and Colonial Knowledge Production in German Colonial Fiction\u003cbr\u003eMaureen Gallagher \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Colonial Propaganda Fiction: Else Steup’s Backfisch Novels from the 1930s \u003cbr\u003eJulia K. Gruber\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. Perspectives on Namibia by Contemporary White German-Speaking Women Authors\u003cbr\u003eLorely French\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52595896975640,"sku":"9781487547356","price":49.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/afrika-and-alemania-german-speaking-women-africa-and-the-african-diaspora-hardback-9781487547356","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}