Empires and Boundaries

Race, Class, and Gender in Colonial Settings

Harald Fischer-Tiné, Susanne Gehrmann

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2008
• Print ISBN: 9780415962391
• eBook ISBN: 9781135896850
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Middle Eastern History
• Index: History

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.

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Empires and Boundaries

Rethinking Race, Class, and Gender in Colonial Settings

Edited by Harald Fischer-Tiné and Susanne Gehrmann

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Empires and boundaries : rethinking race, class, and gender in colonial settings / edited by Harald Fischer-Tiné and Susanne Gehrmann.

p. cm.—(Routledge studies in cultural history ; 9)

Includes index.

ISBN 978-0-415-96239-1

1. Imperialism—Case studies. 2. Colonies—Case studies. 3. Hierarchies—Case studies. 4. Social stratification—Case studies. I. Fischer-Tiné, Harald. II. Gehrmann, Susanne.

JC359.E457 2009

305.09171'9—dc22 2008015683

ISBN13: 978-1-135-89685-0 ePub ISBN

ISBN10: 0-415-96239-0 (hbk)

ISBN10: 0-203-89065-5 (ebk)

ISBN13: 978-0-415-96239-1 (hbk)

ISBN13: 978-0-203-89065-3 (ebk)

DOI: 10.4324/9780203890653

Contents

• List of Figures
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Introduction: Empires, Boundaries, and the Production of Difference HARALD FISCHER-TINÉ AND SUSANNE GERHMANN
• 2 “Education for Work” in Colony and Metropole: The Case of Imperial Germany, c. 1880–1914 SEBASTIAN CONRAD
• 3 Hierarchies of Punishment in Colonial India: European Convicts and the Racial Dividend, c. 1860–1890 HARALD FISCHER-TINÉ
• 4 Boundaries of Race: Representations of Indisch in Colonial Indonesia Revisited VINCENT J. H. HOUBEN
• 5 Contested Boundaries of Whiteness: Public Service Recruitment and the Eurasian and Anglo-Indian Association, 1876–1901 SATOSHI MIZUTANI
• 6 Citizenship and the Politics of Difference in French Africa, 1946–1960 FREDERICK COOPER
• 7 Gendering the Colonial Enterprise: La Mère-Patrie and Maternalism in France and French Indochina NICOLA J. COOPER
• 8 A Hybrid Gaze from Delacroix to Djebar: Visual Encounters and the Construction of the Female “Other” in the Colonial Discourse of Maghreb CLAUDIA GRONEMANN
• 9 In the Empire’s Eyes: Africa in Italian Colonial Cinema Between Imperial Fantasies and Blind Spots IMMACOLATA AMODEO
• 10 Rationalizing the World: British Detective Stories and the Orient MARGRIT PERNAU
• 11 African Americans in West and Central Africa in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: Agents of European Colonial Rule? KATJA FÜLLBERG-STOLBERG
• 12 The Boundaries of Blackness: African-American Culture and the Making of a Black Public Sphere in Colonial South Africa ZINE MAGUBANE
• Index

Figures

• 7.1. Poster from the Marseille colonial exhibition of 1922.
• 7.2. Réunion des musées nationaux.
• 7.3. Private photograph, Saïgon 1902.
• 8.1. First version of Eugène Delacroix, Femmes d’Alger dans leur intérieur (1834).
• 8.2. Watercolor draft of the Femmes d’Alger by Eugène Delacroix.
• 8.3. Postcard of Jean Geiser, Mauresques dans leur intérieur.
• 8.4. Screenshot from Djebar’s documentary film La Zerda et les chants de l’oubli (1982).
• 8.5. Screensho...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Frontmatter 1
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Introduction: Empires, Boundaries, and the Production of Difference—HARALD FISCHER-TINÉ AND SUSANNE GERHMANN
• 2 “Education for Work” in Colony and Metropole: The Case of Imperial Germany, c. 1880–1914—SEBASTIAN CONRAD
• 3 Hierarchies of Punishment in Colonial India: European Convicts and the Racial Dividend, c. 1860–1890—HARALD FISCHER-TINÉ
• 4 Boundaries of Race: Representations of Indisch in Colonial Indonesia Revisited—VINCENT J. H. HOUBEN
• 5 Contested Boundaries of Whiteness: Public Service Recruitment and the Eurasian and Anglo-Indian Association, 1876–1901—SATOSHI MIZUTANI
• 6 Citizenship and the Politics of Difference in French Africa, 1946–1960—FREDERICK COOPER
• 7 Gendering the Colonial Enterprise: La Mère-Patrie and Maternalism in France and French Indochina—NICOLA J. COOPER
• 8 A Hybrid Gaze from Delacroix to Djebar: Visual Encounters and the Construction of the Female “Other” in the Colonial Discourse of Maghreb—CLAUDIA GRONEMANN
• 9 In the Empire’s Eyes: Africa in Italian Colonial Cinema Between Imperial Fantasies and Blind Spots—IMMACOLATA AMODEO
• 10 Rationalizing the World: British Detective Stories and the Orient—MARGRIT PERNAU
• 11 African Americans in West and Central Africa in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: Agents of European Colonial Rule?—KATJA FÜLLBERG-STOLBERG
• 12 The Boundaries of Blackness: African-American Culture and the Making of a Black Public Sphere in Colonial South Africa—ZINE MAGUBANE
• Index