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White rebels in Black : German appropriation of Black popular culture

Layne, Priscilla, author

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\"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 Jèurgen Massaquo, Theodor Michael, Gèunter 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 Kèopsell.\"--Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Subject: German literature 20th century History and criticism. / German literature Black authors History and criticism. / Blacks in literature. / Masculinity in literature. / Blacks in popular culture Germany History 20th century. / Motion pictures Germany History 20th century. / Blacks in motion pictures. / Masculinity in motion pictures. / Blacks Race identity Germany. / Whites Race identity Germany.
• ISBN: 9780472130801

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PT149.B55 L39 2018	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE