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German Empires and Decolonial Fantasies, 1492–1942

Author: Patricia Anne Simpson and Prof. Patricia Anne Simpson   Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

German Empires and Decolonial Fantasies, 1492–1942
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An expansive study of imperial Germany to decolonize colonial narratives and national imaginaries

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An expansive study of imperial Germany to decolonize colonial narratives and national imaginaries

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German Empires and Decolonial Fantasies, 1492–1942 investigates the ways German-speaking Europe’s cultural narratives reflect histories of entanglement with the colonial world. Drawing from an impressive range of sources, Patricia Anne Simpson decodes the ironclad colonial logic that reproduces and inflects tropes of the conquistador, scientific explorer, and pioneers. She brings them into dialogue with a cast of historical agents who reimagine the cannibal, the enslaved, the conquered, Indigenous interlocutors, and the ungovernable. Throughout, intersectional attributes of race, gender, ethnicity, and religion reconfigure around shades of European whiteness. Individual chapters explore the Hohenzollern legacy in early modernity; debates about sovereignty and enslavement; recruitment literature, prose and fiction about migration and colonization in Africa and the Americas; and colonial memoirs driven by recolonial fantasies after 1918. German Empires and Decolonial Fantasies advances efforts to decolonize the multiple disciplines that intersect the field of German studies, including literary criticism, history, philosophy, art history, and anthropology.

German Empires and Decolonial Fantasies, 1492–1942 draws from a wide range of sources, from a seventeenth-century Brandenburg fort on the coast of Ghana to a novella about a beleaguered colonial administrator in German East Africa, to advance an interdisciplinary discourse at the nexus of colonial narratives and national imaginaries. Through detailed case studies, Simpson argues for the inclusion of voices that pushed back against imperialist expansion or intervention, as well as those historical actors who disputed the supremacy of whiteness and the persuasive power of German-centric national history.

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"Simpson's brilliant literary prose and thorough analysis of German colonial history on the African continent and in the Americas make for impressive scholarship. . . . Throughout, Simpson makes complex ideas accessible without sacrificing scholarly precision."

Lawrence Mello, Library Journal

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About the Author

Patricia Anne Simpson is Professor of German at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

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Publisher
The University of Michigan Press
Published
18th March 2025
Pages
352
ISBN
9780472057375

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