The Genocidal Gaze : (Record no. 231977)

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100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Baer, Elizabeth Roberts,
Relator term author.
245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The Genocidal Gaze :
Remainder of title From German Southwest Africa to the Third Reich /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Elizabeth R. Baer.
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture Detroit :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Wayne State Uiversity Press,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice [2017]
264 #3 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture Baltimore, Md. :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Project MUSE,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice 2018
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Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice ©[2017]
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General note "While previous scholars have made ... links between the Herero and Nama genocide and that of the Holocaust, Baer's book is the first to examine literary texts that demonstrate this connection. Texts under consideration include the archive of Nama revolutionary Hendrik Witbooi; a colonial novel by German Gustav Frenssen (1906), in which the genocidal gaze conveyed an acceptance of racial annihilation; and three post-Holocaust texts -- by German Uwe Timm, Ghanaian Ama Ata Aidoo, and installation artist William Kentridge of South Africa -- that critique the genocidal gaze"--Publisher's Web site
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Formatted contents note 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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Summary, etc. 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 thousands 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 trope 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. Baer explores the threads of shared ideology in the Herero and Nama genocide and the Holocaust--concepts such as racial hierarchies, lebensraum (living space), rassenschande (racial shame), and endlösung (final solution) that were deployed by German authorities in 1904 and again in the 1930s and 1940s to justify genocide. She also notes the use of shared methodology--concentration camps, death camps, intentional starvation, rape, indiscriminate killing of women and children--in both instances. While previous scholars have made these links between the Herero and Nama genocide and that of the Holocaust, Baer's book is the first to examine literary texts that demonstrate this connection. Texts under consideration include the archive of Nama revolutionary Hendrik Witbooi; a colonial novel by German Gustav Frenssen (1906), in which the genocidal gaze conveyed an acceptance of racial annihilation; and three post-Holocaust texts--by German Uwe Timm, Ghanaian Ama Ata Aidoo, and installation artist William Kentridge of South Africa--that critique the genocidal gaze. Baer posits that writing and reading about the gaze is an act of mediation, a power dynamic that calls those who commit genocide to account for their crimes and discloses their malignant convictions. Careful reading of texts and attention to the narrative deployment of the genocidal gaze--or the resistance to it--establishes discursive similarities in books written both during colonialism and in the post-Holocaust era. The Genocidal Gaze is an original and challenging discussion of such contemporary issues as colonial practices, the Nazi concentration camp state, European and African race relations, definitions of genocide, and postcolonial theory. Moreover, Baer demonstrates the power of literary and artistic works to condone, or even promote, genocide or to soundly condemn it. Her transnational analysis provides the groundwork for future studies of links between imperialism and genocide, links among genocides, and the devastating impact of the genocidal gaze.
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Source of description note Description based on print version record.
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Postcolonialism in literature.
Source of heading or term fast
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element German colonies.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Genocide.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Genocide in literature.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element SOCIAL SCIENCE
General subdivision Criminology.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Postcolonialisme dans la litterature
General subdivision Histoire et critique.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Holocauste, 1939-1945, dans la litterature
General subdivision Histoire et critique.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Colonialism
General subdivision history
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Holocaust
General subdivision history
650 12 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Genocide
General subdivision history
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Postcolonialism in literature
General subdivision History and criticism.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
General subdivision History and criticism.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Genocide
Geographic subdivision Namibia.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Genocide in literature
General subdivision History and criticism.
651 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name Namibia.
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Geographic name Africa.
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Geographic name Germany
General subdivision Colonies
Geographic subdivision Africa.
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