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:Intimacies

1. Farming Frontiers: The German Woman Pioneer

Patricia Anne Simpson

2. Working for Weihnachtsstimmung: German Women’s Role in Recreating German Culture and Identity in German Southwest Africa and German East Africa, 1894–1906

Kate McGregor

3. Colonialism and the Politics of Gender and Literature in the Netherlands Indies: The Story of the Nyai

Carl Niekerk

4. Repairing Relations: Gendered Encounters in the Dutch East Indies in Wilhelmina Kruijtbosch’s novel Het witte doek

Simon Richter

Part 2: Accountabilities

5. Reading Sojourner Truth’s Narrative (1850) as a Pioneering Literary Denouncement of Dutch Colonialism

Jeroen DeWulf

6. German Women and the Dissemination of Colonial Ideology (1907–1920)

Adèle Douanla and Ésaie Djomo

7. White Women Saving White Men: Women Writers in Belgian and German Colonial Literature

Robrecht De Boodt and Anke Gilleir

8. Colonial Revisionism and German Imperialism in Senta Dinglreiter’s National Socialist Writings

Joseph Kebe-Nguema

9. Fire, Savannah, and Passion: The New Africa Novel and the Construction of White Femininity

Verena Hutter

Part 3: Intersections

10. Colonial Philology and Its Erotic Imaginaries: Kālidāsa’s Sìakuntalā in Germany

Tanvi Solanki

11. Völkisch Nationalism and Its Unfolding in the Colonial Context: Adda von Liliencron’s Historical Novels Giovanna (1881) and Nach Südwestafrika (1906)

Aylin Bademsoy

12. Maria Theresia Ledóchowska as an Activist in the Religious Colonization of Africa

Esaie 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 Texts

Martina Kofer

14. De-Naturalizing Gender and National Belonging: Literary and Essayistic Interventions by Otoo and Yaghoobifarah

Helga Druxes