Afrika and Alemania
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A01=Lisabeth Hock
A01=Michelle Stott James
A01=Priscilla Layne
African diaspora
anti-Black stereotypes
Author_Lisabeth Hock
Author_Michelle Stott James
Author_Priscilla Layne
Black German women
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Category=DS
Category=JBSF
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German-speaking women
postcolonial studies
racial identity in Germany
representation of Africa
whiteness studies
women of colour in Germany
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- ISBN 9781487560737
- Weight: 440g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jul 2025
- Publisher: University of Toronto Press
- Publication City/Country: CA
- Product Form: Paperback
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Afrika and Alemania explores the representation of Blackness in German-speaking literary, autobiographical, and cinematic texts across two centuries. By examining how different groups of women with access to German culture have depicted Africa, Africans, and the African diaspora, the book challenges the assumption that all women will tell the same story. Focusing on Black women, non-Black women of colour, and white women, it investigates how these diverse voices engage with and represent Blackness within a society shaped by racial hierarchies.
Part I analyses how Black, German-speaking women actively reshape and redefine Blackness in response to stereotypes upheld by white German society. Part II explores how non-Black women of colour navigate the complexities of othering while sometimes reproducing anti-Black stereotypes, while Part III discusses how white women’s projections of fantasies about Africa often erase Black voices and render them invisible. Offering a nuanced analysis of the intersections of race, gender, ethnicity, and nationality, Afrika and Alemania provides a vital framework for understanding Blackness within contemporary scholarship and its broader social and cultural implications.
Part I analyses how Black, German-speaking women actively reshape and redefine Blackness in response to stereotypes upheld by white German society. Part II explores how non-Black women of colour navigate the complexities of othering while sometimes reproducing anti-Black stereotypes, while Part III discusses how white women’s projections of fantasies about Africa often erase Black voices and render them invisible. Offering a nuanced analysis of the intersections of race, gender, ethnicity, and nationality, Afrika and Alemania provides a vital framework for understanding Blackness within contemporary scholarship and its broader social and cultural implications.
Priscilla Layne is a professor of German at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Michelle James is an associate professor of German at Brigham Young University.
Lisabeth Hock is an associate professor of German at Wayne State University.
Michelle James is an associate professor of German at Brigham Young University.
Lisabeth Hock is an associate professor of German at Wayne State University.
