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
colonial war in South-West Africa, has continued to the present,
making colonialism an established theme of literary memorialization
alongside Germany's dominant memorythemes -- National Socialism and
the Holocaust, the former GDR and its demise in the Wende, and,
more recently, "1968." This is the first comprehensive study of
contemporary German literature's intense engagement withGerman
colonialism and with Germany's wider involvement in European
colonialism. Building on the author's decade of research and
publication in the field, the book discusses some fifty novels by
German, Swiss, and Austrian writers, among them Hans Christoph
Buch, Alex Capus, Christof Hamann, Lukas Hartmann, Ilona Maria
Hilliges, Giselher W. Hoffmann, Dieter Kuhn, Hermann Schulz,
Gerhard Seyfried, Thomas von Steinaecker, Uwe Timm, Ilija Trojanow,
and Stephan Wackwitz. Drawing on international postcolonial theory,
the German tradition of cross-cultural literary studies, and on
memory studies, the book brings the hitherto neglected German case
to the international debate in postcolonial literary studies. Dirk
Goettsche is Professor of German at the University of Nottingham.
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