Depicting Otherness Representations of Black Africans in German-language serials between 1880 and 1920

Authors

Ruth Dittli, Brigham Young University
Dr. Cindy Brewer, Brigham Young University

Keywords

Black Africans, German-language serials, colonial mission literature

College

Humanities

Department

German and Russian

Abstract

In the era of imperialism Germany came late to the scene, but quickly attempted to catch up to its colonist neighbors and established colonies throughout the “heathen” lands such as China, India, and Africa. To generate interest and support for the colonist efforts a new genera of literature emerged called “colonial literature”. The literature was written by Europeans for Europeans. For my research I wished to discover how those publications dealt with and portrayed the character of the native in African literature.

Recommended Citation

Dittli, Ruth and Brewer, Dr. Cindy (2013) "Depicting Otherness Representations of Black Africans in German-language serials between 1880 and 1920," Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 2013: Iss. 1, Article 852.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jur/vol2013/iss1/852