Remembering Africa: The Rediscovery of Colonialism in Contemporary German Literature

In the late 1990s, in the wake of German unification, multiculturalism, and globalization, a surge of historical novels about German colonialism in Africa and its previously neglected legacies hit theGerman literary scene. This development, accelerated by the centenary in 2004 of Germany's colonial war in South-West Africa, has continued to the present, making colonialism an established theme ofliterary memorialization alongside Germany's dominant memory themes -- National Socialism and the Holo…