White rebels in Black German appropriation of black popular culture
Priscilla Layne
- ix, 259 Seiten Illustrationen
- Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany .
Auch als Online-Ausgabe erschienen Includes filmography. Includes bibliographical references and index
Who's afraid of the black cook? -- Waiting for my band -- The blues and blue jeans : American dreams in the East -- Two black boys look at the white boy -- The future is unwritten "Analyzing literary texts and films, White Rebels in Black shows how German authors have since the 1950s appropriated black popular culture, particularly music, to distance themselves from the legacy of Nazi Germany, authoritarianism, and racism, and how such appropriation changes over time. Priscilla Layne offers a critique of how blackness came to symbolize a positive escape from the hegemonic masculinity of postwar Germany, and how black identities have been represented as separate from, and in opposition to, German identity, foreclosing the possibility of being both black and German. Citing four autobiographies published by black German authors Hans Jürgen Massaquo, Theodor Michael, Günter Kaufmann, and Charly Graf, Layne considers how black German men have related to hegemonic masculinity since Nazi Germany, and concludes with a discussion on the work of black German poet, Philipp Khabo Köpsell."--Provided by publisher
9780472130801 hardcover : alk. paper
2017053881
German literature--History and criticism--20th century German literature--Black authors--History and criticism Blacks in literature Masculinity in literature Blacks in popular culture--History--Germany--20th century Motion pictures--History--Germany--20th century Blacks in motion pictures Masculinity in motion pictures Blacks--Race identity--Germany Whites--Race identity--Germany German literature--History and criticism--20th century German literature--Black authors--History and criticism Blacks in literature Masculinity in literature Blacks in popular culture--History--20th century--Germany Motion pictures--History--20th century--Germany Blacks in motion pictures Masculinity in motion pictures Blacks--Race identity--Germany Whites--Race identity--Germany
Class of Fall 2018 Anna-Maria Kellen Fellow Fellow