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Afrika and Alemania: German-Speaking Women, Africa, and the African Diaspora

by Priscilla Layne
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781487560737
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: University of Toronto Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Toronto Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 296
  • Original Price: GBP 27.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 448 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): European / German

Afrika and Alemania 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.
Part 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, Afrika and Alemania provides a vital framework for understanding Blackness within contemporary scholarship and its broader social and cultural implications.

Priscilla Layne is a professor of German at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Michelle James is an associate professor of German at Brigham Young University. Lisabeth Hock is an associate professor of German at Wayne State University.

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