| Description |
1 online resource (lxxiii, 346 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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Cross/cultures ; 129 |
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Cross/cultures ; 129
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| Contents |
Introduction / Ulrike Lindner [and others] -- From postcolonial to transnational approaches in German studies / Sara Lennox -- Encounters over the border : the shaping of colonial identities in neighbouring British and German colonies in southern Africa / Ulrike Lindner -- The colonial order upside down? : British and Germans in east African prisoner-of-war camps during World War I / Michael Pesek -- Jack, Peter and the beast : postcolonial perspectives on sexual murder and the construction of white masculinity in Britain and Germany at the turn of the twentieth century / Eva Bischoff -- Decolonization of the public space? : (Post)colonial culture of remembrance in Germany / Joachim Zeller -- Setting the record straight? : Imperial history in postcolonial British public culture / Elizabeth Buettner -- (Trans)national consumer cultures : coffee as a colonial product in the German empire / Laura Julia Rischbieter -- Transcultural tea times : an overview of tea in colonial history / Christine Vogt-William -- Döner Kebab and west German consumer (multi- )cultures / Maren Möhring -- A cultural politics of curry : the transnational spaces of contemporary commodity culture / Peter Jackson -- Knowledges of (un)belonging : epistemic change as a defining mode for black women's activism in Germany / Maureen Maisha Eggers -- "I ain't British though/Yes you are. You're as English as I am" : staging belonging and unbelonging in black British drama today / Deirdre Osborne -- Muslims, the discourse on (failed) integration in Britain, and Kenneth Glenaan's film Yasmin / Silke Stroh -- The current spectace of integration in Germany : spatiality, gender, and the boundaries of the national gaze / Markus Schmitz |
| Summary |
While cultural diversity and hybridity have often been celebrated, they also challenge traditional concepts of national and cultural identity - challenges which have caused considerable anxiety. Various disciplines have often investigated the impact of cultural hybridity, multiculture, and (post)colonialism in relative isolation and with a tendency towards over-theorization and loss of specificity. Greater interdisciplinary cooperation can counter this tendency and encourage sustained comparisons between different former empires and across language boundaries. This volume contributes to such d |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
HISTORY.
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British colonies
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German colonies
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Kolonialismus
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Postkolonialismus
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Kollektives Gedächtnis
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Kulturelle Identität
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Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
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Soziale Integration
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Debatte
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Konsumgesellschaft
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Transnationalisierung
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Britse koloniën.
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Duitse koloniën.
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Kolonialisme.
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Postkolonialisme.
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Cultuur.
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Etnische minderheden.
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Entkolonialisierung.
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Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 20th century
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Germany -- Colonies -- History -- 20th century
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Great Britain -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056719
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Germany -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054524
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Germany
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Great Britain
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Deutschland
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Großbritannien
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Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland.
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Duitsland.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lindner, Ulrike, editor.
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Möhring, Maren, editor.
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Stein, Mark, 1966- editor.
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Stroh, Silke, editor.
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| ISBN |
9789042032293 |
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9042032294 |
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