Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
The Africanist Presence in Nineteenth-Century German Writers - Hanna Wallinger
New Negro Renaissance – ‘Neger-Renaissance’: Crossovers between African America and Germany during the Era of the Harlem Renaissance - A. B. Christa Schwarz
The Askari as New Negro: Alain Locke and German Colonial Art - Peter Schneck
Staging the African American Conquest of Old Europe: Ernst Krenek’s Jonny spielt auf -Christian Rogowski
Bridging the Great Divides: Cultural Difference and Transnationalism at Frankfurt’s Jazzklasse - Jonathan Wipplinger
Pictures of “US”? Blackness, Diaspora and the Afro-German Subject - Tina M. Campt
Black Bodies on White Snow: The Reconstruction of Germannessas White in Luis Trenker’s Der verlorene Sohn (The Prodigal Son)(1934) - Gundolf Graml
(Re)writing Twentieth-Century Slavery: John A. Williams’ Clifford’s Blues as Neo-Slave Narrative - Christina Oppel
Reading Clifford’s Blues and Blacks in Nazi Germany inPostNegritude Time - Mark A. Reid
The Rebirth of the Nation: Cinematic Discourses of Race and Reconstruction in Transnational Perspective - Angelica Fenner
Rainer and Der weiße Neger: Fassbinder’s and Kaufmann’s On and Off Screen Affair as German Racial Allegory - Page R. Laws
In a Nation or a Diaspora? Gender, Sexuality and Afro-German Subject Formation - Michelle M. Wright
Winold Reiss to Kara Walker: The Silhouette in Black American Art - Leesa Rittelmann
Mixed Media, Mixed Identities: The Universal Aesthetics of Marc Brandenburg - Jürgen Heinrichs
On Ben Patterson - Valerie Cassel Oliver
Poetry, Jazz and the Politics of Aesthetics: Transcontinental Connections between German ’68ers and African American Culture - Melba Joyce Boyd
Notes on the Contributors