Andreas Eckl, Essen
Wolfram Hartmann, Windhoek
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Christo Botha, Windhoek
Greg Cuthbertson, Pretoria
Tilman Dedering, Pretoria
Gregor Dobler, Basel
Dag Henrichsen, Basel
Andre du Pisani, Windhoek
Chris Saunders, Cape Town
Jake Short, Athens (USA)
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Carol Kotze
Jennifer Perry
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Looking back critically:
Representations of the 'Herero War' in novels of the GDR
(Ferdinand May, Dietmar Beetz)
Stefan Hermes
Abstract
Drawing on elements of postcolonial theory, the article analyses two novels from the GDR dealing with the Herero War, which have been widely ignored by literary criticism so far: Ferdinand May’s “Sturm über Südwest-Afrika” (1962) and Dietmar Beetz’s “Flucht vom Waterberg” (1989). It points out their references to Lenin’s concept of imperialism and explores their authentification strategies as well as the construction of the ‘black’ and ‘white’ characters plus the way the relations between them are depicted. Finally, it demonstrates to which extent the authors achieve their aim to present a critical view on the historic events – and how they occasionally fail to do so by unintentionally falling back on patterns dominating traditional colonial literature.
Journal of Namibian Studies, 5 (2009): 73 - 98 |
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