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...John Zilcosky Hermann Hesse's readers associate him with the “East” yet generally ignore his earliest writing on the topic: the mixed-genre masterpiece about India, Robert Aghion (1913). I argue that Aghion is a sophisticated critique of colonialism in which no one is innocent, not even...

...Joshua Dittrich Literary primitivism in select poems and essays by Gottfried Benn reveals complex interrelations of primitivist discourse with modernism, colonialism, and fascism in Weimar Germany. Arguing that Benn explicitly enters the discourse of Weimar (post)colonialism in the mid-1920s...

... that liberal Germany mark its limits in certain moments of German history—namely, National Socialism—while disavowing its role in the constitution of German colonialism. The return to the Enlightenment implied in hegemonic formulations of Leitkultur restores Germany’s freedom from an ugly past; this imagined...

... since 2015, the rise of the extreme right-wing party Alternatives for Germany, resurgence of discussion on German colonialism in Africa, and extended public debate around the controversial Humboldt Forum in Berlin, the essay centralizes questions of race, colonialism, and migration. Connecting these key...

...Olivia Landry Abstract Spurred by the search for the identity of a colonial soldier captured in Germany during World War I, who left his trace in the form of a story in the sound archive in Berlin, Philip Scheffner’s documentary film The Halfmoon Files (2007) is an excavation of an obscured moment...

...Jens Hacke The work of the political economist Moritz Julius Bonn (1873–1965), one of the prolific intellectuals of his time, but today undeservingly forgotten, covers the main issues of political liberalism from the Kaiserreich to the Bundesrepublik. An early critic of imperialism and colonial...

..., the article proposes a fourfold typology of torture by looking at representative examples from Aeschylus's Prometheus to Franz Kafka's “In the Penal Colony” and Jean Améry's At the Mind's Limits . The article contends that the incommunicability of torture challenges not only the literary ethics...

... long-standing concern with colonialism and imperialism and with how they were encountered and resisted. References Alter Nora . Vietnam Protest Theatre: The Television War on Stage . Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 1996 . Brecht Bertolt . Arbeitsjournal, 1938–1955...

... in the United States as its starting point, the article shows that a defense of the humanities as “above politics” contributes to this delegitimization of marginalized knowledge. Turning to the European context, it suggests that a decolonizing of academe must include a reckoning with the Continent’s colonial...

... on Colonialism , translated by Pinkham Joan . New York : Monthly Review Press , 2000 . Césaire Aimé . “ Poetry and Knowledge .” In Aimé Césaire: Lyric and Dramatic Poetry, 1946–1982 , translated by Eshleman Clayton and Smith Annette , xlii – lvi . Charlottesville : University...

... of hallowed exceptions to critique. At the very least, it is incumbent on us to do away with any pretense that Europe, whose modernity and cultures we investigate, is a closed shop—it has always been entangled in complex and colonial intimacies. The work—let’s call it decolonizing work for now...

... Buenos Aires, the Caribbean of Aimé Césaire, the Mexico City of Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Alfaro Siqueiros. These additions remind us that metropolitan culture was translated, appropriated, and creatively mimicked in colonized and post- colonial countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America...

... : Polity , 2020 . Brouillette Sarah . Literature and the Creative Economy . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2014 . Césaire Aimé . Discourse on Colonialism . Translated by Pinkham Joan . New York : Monthly Review Press , 2000 . Chakrabarty Dipesh...

... nationalism economic crisis debt References Cabral Amilcar . 1965 . “The Nationalist Movements of the Portuguese Colonies,” translated by Handyside Richard . Marxists Internet Archive . www.marxists.org/subject/africa/cabral/1965/tnmpc.htm . Curtis Mark . 2004...

... Main : Campus . Ford Caroline . 2012 . “Imperial Preservation and Landscape Reclamation: National Parks and Nature Reserves in French Colonial Africa.” In Civilizing Nature: National Parks in Global Historical Perspective , edited by Gissibl Bernhard Höhler Sabine Kupper...

..., discourses of positivism and prog- ress, and the contemporary project of Esperanto. The concept has a very long history but took a quite specific form in the early years of the twentieth century. I argue that through its alliance with the discourses of physiology, phrenology, and colonialism...

... new ones. 8 These new archives reject the traditional projects of nationalism, imperialism, and colonialism once inextricably linked to the establishment of the archive. 9 They present instead what Claudia Breger formulates as “a reassembly that unfolds in a complex intertwining of movement...

... of the world is for us today. To support Portuguese colonial rule, the Federal Republic has since the early 1960s been expanding its aid for the Portuguese military, leading recently to the transfer of West German air squadrons—on the guileless pretext that at issue were only maneuvers planned to take...

... . 1998 . Bedarf Deutschland der Colonien? / Does Germany Need Colonies? , edited and translated by Breuning E. C. M. Chamberlain M. E. . Lewiston, NY : Mellen . Foucault Michel . 1978 . An Introduction. Vol. 1 of The History of Sexuality , translated by Hurley Robert . New...

... of arguing for the possibility of bringing together the colonial experience and the Holocaust along the lines of what Michael Rothberg calls “multidirectional memory,” in which the memory of suffering is not a zero-sum game. 6 Less attention has been paid to the role that Fanon’s thought played in Améry’s...