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This volume makes a substantial contribution to developing Comparative Postcolonial Studies within Europe. Theoretical inquiry into the diversity and interconnectedness of European colonial histories and postcolonial conditions combines with new approaches to conceptualizing internal European (post-) colonialisms, and case studies and comparative studies of the literature and culture of a broad range of countries and language areas, including Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Portugal, the former Habsburg region and the Baltics, along with the German language area, Britain and France. Authors consider the repercussions of overseas colonialism across Europe, postcolonial migration, multiculturalism and postcolonial politics of memory, as well as the interface between colonialism and nationalism and the innovative cross-mapping of postcolonial research and Memory Studies. Transnational and comparative approaches are used to shed new light on the relationship between global developments and regional specificities, along with the interaction between (post-) colonial memory and (national) identity from the nineteenth century to the present day.
Sommario
Introduction
I. Theorizing Postcolonialism(s) across Europe
Monika Albrecht
German Multiculturalism and Postcolonialism in Comparative Perspective. Prolegomenon for the Framework for a Postcolonial Germany
Isabel Hoving
Dutch Postcolonialism, Multiculturalism and National Identity: Society, Theory and Literature
Sarah de Mul
The Role of Subnational Identity in Belgian (Post-) Colonialism
Kirsten Thisted
Imperial Ghosts in the North Atlantic. Old and New Narratives about the Colonial Relations between Greenland and Denmark
Yves Clavaron
La Francophone and Beyond
Paulo de Medeiros
Post-Imperial Europe: First Definitions
II. European Literature and Culture in Postcolonial Perspective
Florian Krobb
Defining Germanness Overseas. Colonialism and Nationhood in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Heike Bartel
Colonial Myths - Classical Texts in (Post-) Colonial Perspective. The Example of the Medea Myth in German Literature
Liebeth Minnaard
Of a Chinese Merchant and a Chinese Monster. Functions of Exoticism in Dutch Fin-de-siècle Literature
Axel Dunker
Recent German Novels on Colonialism in International Perspective
Dirk Göttsche
Memory and Critique of Colonialism in Contemporary German and English Historical Novels about Africa
III. Conceptualizing Internal European (Post-) Colonialisms
Iulia-Karin Patrut
Conceptualizing German Colonialism within Europe
Marijan Bobinac
Cultural Transfer in the Habsburg Empire. Croatia and German-Language Culture from a Postcolonial Perspective
Milka Car
Literary Legacies of the Habsburg Empire in a Postcolonial Perspective. The Example of Miroslav Krleza
Anneli Saro
Superimposed Soviet Colonialism. The Processing of Soviet Memories in Estonian Literature, Theatre and Film
Epp Annus
Layers of Colonial Rule in the Baltics Nation-Building, the Soviet Rule and the Affectivity of a Nation
Notes on the Contributors
Info autore
Dirk Göttsche is Professor of German at the University of Nottingham, Axel Dunker is Professor of Modern and Contemporary German Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Bremen.
