German colonialism, visual culture, and modern memory / edited by Volker M. Langbehn.

"Simultaneously published in the UK"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Picturing race : visuality and German colonialism / Volker Langbehn -- German colonialism, 1884-1919 -- Advertising and the optics of colonial power at the Fin de Siècle / David Ciarlo -- "... Will try to send you the best views from here" : postcards from the colonial war in Namibia (1904-1908) / Felix Axster -- Harmless "Kolonialbiedermeier"? : colonial and exotic trading cards / Joachim Zeller -- Cakewalking the anarchy of empire around 1900 / Astrid Kusser -- Satire magazines and racial politics / Volker Langbehn -- Demystifying colonial settlement : building handbooks for settlers, 1904-1930 / Itohan Osayimwese -- Patriotism, spectacle, and reverie : colonialism in early cinema / Wolfgang Fuhrmann -- German postcolonialism, 1919-present -- Persuasive maps and a suggestive novel : Hans Grimm's Volk ohne Raum and German cartography in southwest Africa / Oliver Simons -- Colonial disgust : the colonial master's emotion of superiority / Thomas Schwarz -- Weimar revisions of Germany's colonial past : the photomontages of Hannah Höch and László Moholy-Nagy / Brett M. Van Hoesen -- The "colonial idea" in Weimar cinema / Christian Rogowski -- "The Black Jew" : an after-image of German colonialism / Birgit Haehnel -- Reenacting colonialism : Germany and its former colonies in recent TV productions / Wolfgang Struck -- Postcolonial amnesia : taboo memories and Kanaks with cameras / Deniz Göktürk.