New Reissue of Novel About German Colonials/Hereros

[Dave Monroe]

And see as well here ...

Noyes, John K.  The Mastery of Submission:
   Inventions of Masochism.  Ithaca, NY:
   Cornell UP, 1997.

... Ch. 4, "Imperialist Man, Civilizing Woman, and the
European Male Masochist," pp. 105-39 ...

"In 1909, Orla Holm published a novel called Ovita: An
Episode in Hereroland.  Ovita was written in the years
immediately following the Herero rebellion in German
southwest Africa.  In 1903-4 .... Out of a population
of some eighty thousand Herero ... General Lothar von
Trotha ....  The ensuing years were a time when
colonial policy occupied the limelight in Germany.  In
1907, debates over Germany's colonies led the
so-called Hottentot elections.... These elections
proved, as Peter Gay notes, that 'manliness compounded
with racism was a hard combination to run against.'"
(p. 120; see Peter Gay, The Cultivation of Hatred [NY:
Norton, 1994], p. 90)

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--- Richard Romeo <romeocheeseburger at yahoo.com> wrote:
> MORENGA
> Author: Timm, Uwe 
> 
> The German colonial experience in Africa is the
> subject of this dense, often fascinating 1983 novel
> by the German author (Midsummer Night, 1998, etc.).
> 
> Relations between German colonists and both Herero
> and Hottentot tribes grow dangerously strained in
> the former South West Africa (now Namibia) in the
> early 20th century ....

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