Empires and Boundaries

Fischer-Tiné, Harald (Hrsg.):
Empires and boundaries : rethinking race, class, and gender in colonial settings / ed. by Harald Fischer-Tiné and Susanne Gehrmann. - New York [u.a.] : Routledge, 2009. - X, 243 S. : Ill. - (Routledge studies in cultural history ; 9)
ISBN 978-0-415-96239-1 / 0-415-96239-0 (Hardcover)
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DDC 305.091719

Beschreibung
Empires and Boundaries: Rethinking Race, Class, and Gender in Colonial Settings is an exciting collection of original essays exploring the meaning and existence of conflicting and coexisting hierarchies in colonial settings. With investigations into the colonial past of a diversity of regions – including South Asia, South-East Asia, and Africa – the dozen notable international scholars collected here offer a truly inter-disciplinary approach to understanding the structures and workings of power in British, French, Dutch, German, and Italian colonial contexts.
Integrating a historical approach with perspectives and theoretical tools specific to disciplines such as social anthropology, literary and film studies, and gender studies, Empires and Boundaries: Rethinking Race, Class, and Gender in Colonial Settings, is a striking and ambitious contribution to the scholarship of imperialism and post-colonialism and an essential read for anyone interested in the revolution being undergone in these fields of study. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
List of Figures. vii
Acknowledgments. ix
1. Harald Fischer-Tiné and Susanne Gerhmann: Introduction: Empires, Boundaries and the Production of Difference. 1
2. Sebastian Conrad: "Education for Work" in Colony and Metropole: The Case of Imperial Germany, c. 1880-1914. 23
3. Harald Fischer-Tiné: Hierarchies of Punishment in Colonial India: European Convicts and the Racial Dividend (c. 1860-1890). 41
4. Vincent J.H. Houben: Boundaries of Race: Representations of Indisch in Colonial Indonesia Revisited. 66
5. Satoshi Mizutani: Contested Boundaries of Whiteness: Public Service Recruitment and the Eurasian and Anglo-Indian Association, 1876-1901. 86
6. Frederick Cooper: Citizenship and the Politics of Difference in French Africa, 1946-60.
7. Nicola J. Cooper: Gendering the Colonial Enterprise: La Mère-Patrie and Maternalism in France and French Indochina. 129
8. Claudia Gronemann: A Hybrid Gaze from Delacroix to Djebar: Visual Encounters and the Construction of the Female "Other" in the Colonial Discourse of Maghreb. 146
9. Immacolata Amodeo: In the Empire’s Eyes: Africa in Italian Colonial Cinema between Imperial Fantasies and Blind Spots. 166
10. Margrit Pernau: Rationalizing the World: British Detective Stories and the Orient. 179
11. Katja Füllberg-Stolberg: African Americans in West and Central Africa in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries — Agents of European Colonial Rule? 195
12. Zine Magubane: The Boundaries of Blackness: African American Culture and the Making of a Black Public Sphere in Colonial South Africa. 212
Index. 233

Herausgeber
HARALD FISCHER-TINÉ is Professor of History at Jacobs University, Bremen. He holds a PhD in South Asian History from Heidelberg University (2000) and has published extensively on the social and cultural history of the British Raj and varieties of Hindu reform and Hindu nationalism in 19th and 20th century India. He is the author of Low & Licentious Europeans: White Subalternity in Colonial India (2008) and has co-edited Colonialism as Civilizing Mission (2004). Profilseite.
SUSANNE GEHRMANN, Juniorprofessorin für Literaturen und Kulturen Afrikas mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Region Westafrika und den Themenschwerpunkten Gender und Oralliteratur, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin. Profilseite.

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