German Colonialism Revisited: African, Asian, and Oceanic Experiences

Contributors

333 Contributors Editors Nina Berman is Professor of Comparative Studies at Ohio State University. She is the author of German Literature on the Middle East: Discourses and Practices, 1000–­1989 (University of Michigan Press, 2011), Impossible Missions ? German Economic, Military, and Humanitarian Efforts in Africa (University of Nebraska Press, 2004), and Orientalismus, Kolonialismus und Moderne : Zum Bild des Orients in der deutschsprachigen Kultur um 1900 (Metzler, 1997), and articles on various questions related to German minority literature, orientalism, colonialism, German activities in Kenya, and intercultural contact. Klaus Mühlhahn is Professor of Chinese History and Culture at Freie Universit ät Berlin. His research focuses on Chinese legal history in the modern period and the history of imperialism and Sino-­ Western exchanges in the twentieth century . Publications include Criminal Justice in China—­ A History (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009); Herrschaft und Widerstand in der “Musterkolonie ” Kiautschou: Interaktionen zwischen China und Deutschland, 1897-­ 1914 (München: Oldenburg, 2000); The Globalization of Confucius and Confucianism , ed. with Nathalie van Looy (Münster: Lit, 2012); The Limits of Empire: New Perspectives on Imperialism in Modern China, ed. (Münster: Lit, 2008). Patrice Nganang is Associate Professor of Literary and Cultural Theory at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. His publications include a study on Bertolt Brecht and Wole Soyinka, Interkulturalität und Bearbeitung: Untersuchung zu Soyinka und Brecht (1998), and a theory of contemporary African literature, Manifeste d’une Nouvelle Litterature Africaine: Pour une Ecriture Preemptive (2007). He has also published novels, novellas, and collections of poems. His novel Temps de Chien (2001) was awarded the Grand Prix de la Litterature d’Afrique Noire and the Prix Marguerite Yourcenar. His work has been translated into German, English, Spanish, Norwegian, and Italian, among others. His latest novels, Mont Plaisant (2011) and La Saison des prunes (2013) deal with German and French colonialism. 334    Contributors Contributors Eva Bischoff received a Dr. phil. from the Ludwig-­ Maximilians University in Munich in 2009. In her dissertation, published by transcript in 2011 as Kannibale-­ Werden. Eine postkoloniale Geschichte deutscher Männlichkeit um 1900, she reconstructs the entanglement between German colonial and metropolitan discourses on masculinity, race, and class. Since 2011, she has taught International History at the University of Trier and is conducting a research project on the history of settler imperialism in the United States and Australia (ca. 1830–­ 70). Her general interests include colonial and imperial history, postcolonial theory, and gender/queer studies. Dirk Göttsche is Professor of German at the University of Nottingham (UK). He received a Dr. phil. at Münster in 1986 (Die Produktivität der Sprachkrise in der modernen Prosa, 1987) and completed his Habilitation at Münster in 1999 (Zeit im Roman: Literarische Zeitreflexion und die Geschichte des Zeitromans im späten 18. und im 19. Jahrhundert, 2001). He has published on the German novel, Wilhelm Raabe, Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian Modernism, modern short prose, and postcolonial and cross-­ cultural literary studies, including Zeitreflexion und Zeitkritik im Werk Wilhelm Raabes (2000); Kleine Prosa in Moderne und Gegenwart (2006); Remembering Africa: The Rediscovery of Colonialism in Contemporary German Literature (2013); (co-­ ed.) Interkulturelle Texturen: Afrika und Deutschland im Reflexionsmedium der Literatur (2003); (co-­ ed.) Ingeborg Bachmann: “Todesarten”-­ Projekt (1995); Kritische Schriften (2005); Bachmann Handbuch (2003); (co-­ ed.) Wilhelm Raabe: Global Themes—­ International Perspectives (2009). Andrew Hennlich is assistant professor of Art History at the Gwen Frostic School of Art, Western Michigan University. He is currently preparing a manuscript , (un)Fixing the Eye: William Kentridge and the Optics of Witness, based on his doctoral dissertation received at the University of Manchester (2011). Hennlich is also currently editing with Paul Clinton a special issue of the journal parallax on the theme of stupidity. He has written more widely on contemporary art for several journals including esse, etc., and Image & Text. Thoralf Klein is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Loughborough University (UK) and a former visiting fellow of the College of Cultural Studies, Constance (Germany). He has published widely on the social and cultural history of modern China, the history of imperialism and colonialism, Christian mis- Contributors    335 sions, and transnational/global history. He published, among others, Geschichte Chinas von 1800 bis zur Gegenwart (Paderborn: Schöningh, 2007), Kolonialkriege : Militärische Gewalt im Zeichen des Imperialismus (Hamburg: Hamburger Edition, 2006), and Die Basler Mission in Guangdong (Südchina) 1859–­ 1931: Akkulturationsprozesse und kulturelle Grenzziehungen zwischen Missionaren, chinesischen Christen und lokaler Gesellschaft (Munich...