The Genocidal Gaze : From German Southwest Africa to the Third Reich
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The Genocidal Gaze : From German Southwest Africa to the Third Reich

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The Genocidal Gaze : From German Southwest Africa to the Third Reich

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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, â€_x009d_ 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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. One: The African Gaze of Resistance in Hendrik Witbooi and Others
  10. Two: The Genocidal Gaze in Gustav Frenssen’s Peter Moor’s Journey to Southwest Africa
  11. Three: Uwe Timm’s Critique of the Genocidal Gaze in Morenga and In My Brother’s Shadow
  12. Four: William Kentridge’s Black Box / Chambre Noire: The Gaze on / in the Herero Genocide, the Holocaust, and Apartheid
  13. Five: Ama Ata Aidoo’s Our Sister Killjoy: The African Gaze of Resistance Today
  14. Afterword
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index