Contents
Introduction - Nina Berman, Klaus Mühlhahn, and Patrice Nganang
Part 1. Interactions
Architecture with a Mission: Bamum Autoethnography during the Period of German Colonialism - Itohan I. Osayimwese
“The Germans cannot master our language!” or German Colonial Rulers and the Beti in the Cameroonian Hinterlands - Germain Nyada (Translated by Amber Suggitt)
Sex and Control in Germany’s Overseas Possessions: Venereal Disease and Indigenous Agency - Daniel J. Walther
Ruga-ruga: The History of an African Profession, 1820–1918 - Michael Pesek
Bomani: African Soldiers as Colonial Intermediaries in German East Africa, 1890–1914 - Michelle Moyd
Pioneers of Empire? The Making of Sisal Plantations in German East Africa, 1890–1917 - Hanan Sabea
“Zake: The Papuan Chief”: An Alliance with a German Missionary in Colonial Kaiser-Wilhelmsland (Oceania) - Gabriele Richter
Part 2. Resistance, Anti-colonial Activism, and the Rise of Nationalist Discourses
Germany and the Chinese Coolie: Labor, Resistance, and the Struggle for Equality, 1884–1914 - Andreas Steen
The Other German Colonialism: Power, Conflict, and Resistance in a German-speaking Mission in China, ca. 1850–1920 - Thoralf Klein
Nationalism and Pragmatism: The Revolutionists in German Qingdao (1897–1914) - Jianjun Zhu
Anti-colonial Nationalism and Cosmopolitan “Standard Time”: Lala Har Dayal’s Forty Four Months in Germany and Turkey (1920) - B. Venkat Mani
Acting Cannibal: Intersecting Strategies, Conflicting Interests, and the Ambiguities of Cultural Resistance in Iringa, German East Africa - Eva Bischoff
The “Truppenspieler Show”: Herero Masculinity and the German Colonial Military Aesthetic - Molly McCullers
Part 3. Remembering and Rethinking
Recollection and Intervention: Memory of German Colonialism in Contemporary African Migrants’ Writing - Dirk Göttsche
The Shadows of History: Photography and Colonialism in William Kentridge’s Black Box/Chambre Noire - Andrew J. Hennlich
Germans and the Death-Throes of the Qing: Mo Yan’s The Sandalwood Torture - Yixu Lü
The Origins of German Minority Cinema in Colonial Film - Patrice Nganang
Bibliography
Contributors
Index