Remembering Africa: The Rediscovery of Colonialism in Contemporary German Literature

by Dirk Göttsche

A groundbreaking treatment of the themes of colonialism and Africa in German literary fiction as presented in some fifty novels from the past three decades.

In the late 1990s, in the wake of German unification, multiculturalism, and globalization, a surge of historical novels about German colonialism in Africa and its previously neglected legacies hit the German literary scene. This development, accelerated by the centenary in 2004 of Germany's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571135464
• ISBN13: 9781571135469
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 494 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.2"