Zionism, the German empire, and Africa : Jewish metamorphoses and the colors of difference, Axel Stähler

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Zionism, the German empire, and Africa : Jewish metamorphoses and the colors of difference, Axel Stähler

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Jewish metamorphoses and the colors of difference

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Axel Stähler

Instantiates

• Zionism, the German empire, and Africa : Jewish metamorphoses and the colors of difference

Publication

• Berlin | Boston, De Gruyter Oldenburg, 2019

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Contents

List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements and permissions -- List of abbreviations -- Notes on translations, the appendices, and controversial lexical choices. Introduction: The Mbwapwa rhizome: Jewish metamorphoses and the colors of difference : The German colonial enterprise, Zionism, and the Mbwapwa rhizome -- Mbwapwa Jumbo and his letters from New-Newland -- Imaginaries of Africa and of Palestine -- Colonial conflict and its mediation in Germany -- The Mbwapwa rhizome and the chapters of this book. 1 Portrait of the African as a Jew: of the Jew as an African? : The "common fatherland" and the dangers from inside -- Black "Jews" and "Black" Jews -- The iconography of difference -- Exhibiting otherness: fascination and contempt -- Hideous Hittites and magnificent Maasai -- Rifle and bottle, umbrella and fez -- The ambivalence of Herzl's gloves. 2 Soap powder, the Jews, and the white man's country : The Jewish soap powder plot -- The white man's country and the Jews -- Civilization and culture imperiled: the Jews and the blacks -- Jews, blacks, monkeys: and the imaginary white other -- Challenging the rascal point of view. 3 The German Empire, Africa, and the Jews : Bloodthirsty beasts and bloody battle -- Race war and genocide -- Return of the native, return of the repressed -- Mbwapwa, Kreplach, and anticolonial subversion. 4 Imag(in)ing the other: satire and colonial conflict : Colonial resolve and psychopathic aberration -- Commemoration and oblivion -- Capitalist complicity and clerical collusion -- The new regiment and the Jewish spirit -- Colonial desire and sexual excess. 5 Black faces and blackface: Mbwapwa, Mpundo, and the Variété -: Colonial scandal and colonial swamp -- Variété, cakewalk, and the wild west. 6 Human meat and tortured souls: Oskar Panizza : The grotesque, the uncanny, and the Ludic impulse -- Contested humanity and a mad danse macabre -- Anthropology of the monstrous and the imagined reprieve of genocide. Conclusion: at the fringes of the Mbwapwa rhizome: Franz Kafka and looming conflagration : Metamorphoses, monsters, and mimicry -- Apes, Negroes, and Zionists -- Schlemiel redivivus: Mbwapwa R.I.P. Appendix I: Max Jungmann: briefe aus Neu-Neuland -- Appendix II: Max Jungmann: letters from New-Newland -- Bibliography -- Index

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1080564225

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24 cm

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xiv, 495 pages

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9783110583342

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(OCoLC)1080564225