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846250
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Baer, Elizabeth Roberts
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The genocidal gaze : : from German Southwest Africa to the Third Reich /\ Elizabeth R. Baer.
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| Publication Statement
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Detroit :: Wayne State University Press,, [2017]
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, ©2017
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1 online resource
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| ISBN
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0814343856
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: 0814343864
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: 0814344380
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: 9780814343852
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: 9780814343869
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: 9780814344385
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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The African Gaze of Resistance in Hendrik Witbooi and Others -- The Genocidal Gaze in Gustav Frenssen's Peter Moor's Journey to Southwest Africa -- Uwe Timm's Critique of the Genocidal Gaze in Morenga and In My Brother's Shadow -- William Kentridg's Black Box / Chambre Noire: The Gaze on /in Herero Genocide, the Holocaust and Apartheid -- Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy: The African Gaze of Resistance Today.
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| Abstract
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The first genocide of the twentieth century, though not well known, was committed by Germans between 1904-1907 in the country we know today as Namibia, where they exterminated hundreds of Herero and Nama people and subjected the surviving indigenous men, women, and children to forced labor. The perception of Africans as subhuman--lacking any kind of civilization, history, or meaningful religion--and the resulting justification for the violence against them is what author Elizabeth R. Baer refers to as the "genocidal gaze," an attitude that was later perpetuated by the Nazis. In The Genocidal Gaze: From German Southwest Africa to the Third Reich, Baer uses the metaphor of the gaze to trace linkages between the genocide of the Herero and Nama and that of the victims of the Holocaust. Significantly, Baer also considers the African gaze of resistance returned by the indigenous people and their leaders upon the German imperialists.
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Genocide in literature-- History and criticism.
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Genocide-- Namibia.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature-- History and criticism.
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Postcolonialism in literature-- History and criticism.
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Genocide in literature.
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Genocide.
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German colonies.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature.
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Postcolonialism in literature.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Criminology.
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Genocide-- history.
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Holocaust-- history.
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Colonialism-- history.
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Germany, Colonies, Africa.
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Africa.
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Namibia.
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| Dewey Classification
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364.151
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| LC Classification
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HV6322.7
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