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Empires and Boundaries Routledge Studies in Cultural History 1. The Politics of Information in 9. Empires and Boundaries Early Modern Europe Rethinking Race, Class, and Gender Edited by Brendan Dooley and in Colonial Settings Sabrina Baron Edited by Harald Fischer-Tiné and Susanne Gehrmann 2. The Insanity of Place / The Place of Insanity Essays on the History of Psychiatry Andrew Scull 3. Film, History, and Cultural Citizenship Sites of Production Edited by Tina Mai Chen and David S. Churchill 4. Genre and Cinema Ireland and Transnationalism Edited by Brian McIlroy 5. Histories of Postmodernism Edited by Mark Bevir, Jill Hargis, and Sara Rushing 6. Africa after Modernism Transitions in Literature, Media, and Philosophy Michael Janis 7. Rethinking Race, Politics, and Poetics C.L.R. James’ Critique of Modernity Brett St Louis 8. Making British Culture English Readers and the Scottish Enlightenment, 1740–1830 David Allan Empires and Boundaries Rethinking Race, Class, and Gender in Colonial Settings Edited by Harald Fischer-Tiné and Susanne Gehrmann New York London First published 2009 by Routledge 270 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016 Simultaneously published in the UK by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2008. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2009 Taylor & Francis All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereaf- ter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trade- marks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Empires and boundaries : rethinking race, class, and gender in colonial settings / edited by Harald Fischer-Tiné and Susanne Gehrmann. p. cm. — (Routledge studies in cultural history ; 9) Includes index. ISBN 978-0-415-96239-1 1. Imperialism—Case studies. 2. Colonies—Case studies. 3. Hierarchies— Case studies. 4. Social stratification—Case studies. I. Fischer-Tiné, Harald. II. Gehrmann, Susanne. JC359.E457 2009 305.09171'9—dc22 2008015683 ISBN 0-203-89065-5 Master e-book ISBN ISBN10: 0-415-96239-0 (hbk) ISBN10: 0-203-89065-5 (ebk) ISBN13: 978-0-415-96239-1 (hbk) ISBN13: 978-0-203-89065-3 (ebk) Contents List of Figures vii Acknowledgments ix 1 Introduction: Empires, Boundaries, and the Production of Difference 1 HARALD FISCHER-TINÉ AND SUSANNE GERHMANN 2 “Education for Work” in Colony and Metropole: The Case of Imperial Germany, c. 1880–1914 23 SEBASTIAN CONRAD 3 Hierarchies of Punishment in Colonial India: European Convicts and the Racial Dividend, c. 1860–1890 41 HARALD FISCHER-TINÉ 4 Boundaries of Race: Representations of Indisch in Colonial Indonesia Revisited 66 VINCENT J. H. HOUBEN 5 Contested Boundaries of Whiteness: Public Service Recruitment and the Eurasian and Anglo-Indian Association, 1876–1901 86 SATOSHI MIZUTANI 6 Citizenship and the Politics of Difference in French Africa, 1946–1960 107 FREDERICK COOPER vi Contents 7 Gendering the Colonial Enterprise: La Mère-Patrie and Maternalism in France and French Indochina 129 NICOLA J. COOPER 8 A Hybrid Gaze from Delacroix to Djebar: Visual Encounters and the Construction of the Female “Other” in the Colonial Discourse of Maghreb 146 CLAUDIA GRONEMANN 9 In the Empire’s Eyes: Africa in Italian Colonial Cinema Between Imperial Fantasies and Blind Spots 166 IMMACOLATA AMODEO 10 Rationalizing the World: British Detective Stories and the Orient 179 MARGRIT PERNAU 11 African Americans in West and Central Africa in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: Agents of European Colonial Rule? 195 KATJA FÜLLBERG-STOLBERG 12 The Boundaries of Blackness: African-American Culture and the Making of a Black Public Sphere in Colonial South Africa 212 ZINE MAGUBANE Index 233 Figures 7.1. Poster from the Marseille colonial exhibition of 1922. 131 7.2. Réunion des musées nationaux. 132 7.3. Private photograph, Saïgon 1902. 134 8.1. First version of Eugène Delacroix, Femmes d’Alger dans leur intérieur (1834). 153 8.2. Watercolor draft of the Femmes d’Alger by Eugène Delacroix. 154 8.3. Postcard of Jean Geiser, Mauresques dans leur intérieur. 156 8.4. Screenshot from Djebar’s documentary fi lm La Zerda et les chants de l’oubli (1982). 158 8.5. Screenshot from Djebar’s documentary fi lm La Zerda et les chants de l’oubli (1982). 159 Acknowledgments When we took the initiative to organize an international conference on the subject of “Empires and Boundaries: Rethinking Race, Class, and Gender in African and Asian Colonial Settings” at the Institute of Asian and African Studies of Humboldt University, Berlin, in September 2006, our aim was to bring together scholars from various academic backgrounds and with dif- ferent regional as well as topical foci in their respective discipline. Although the “race, class, gender” paradigm has been prominent in the historical and cultural (post-)colonial studies over the last twenty years, it continues to be a fascinating and fruitful fi eld of research. Our starting point was the realization that there is an obvious lack of debate among scholars working on the different colonial Empires in both Africa and Asia and/or in differ- ent disciplines. The project of a cross-disciplinary get-together of scholars in history, literary, cultural studies, and the social sciences working on the British and the French Empire, as well as on “smaller” imperial enterprises like the Dutch, the German, and the Italian, thus came into being. The present volume brings together selected papers from the conference and some complementary contributions. We would like to thank all partici- pants of the conference whose papers could not be included for either reason of coherence of the volume or of their already being published elsewhere: Clare Anderson (University of Leicester), Tracy Denean Sharpley-Whiting (Vanderbilt University), Didier Gondola (Indiana University Purdue), Durba Gosh (Cornell University), Theresa Hubel (Huron University College), Elizabeth Kolsky (Villanova University), Lize Kriel (University of Preto- ria), John Marriott (University of East London), Silke Strickrodt (Hum- boldt University, Berlin), Klaus Stierstorfer (University of Münster), and Melitta Waligora (Humboldt University, Berlin). We enjoyed the papers, statements in the discussions, and presence of each one of you. Equally, our thanks go to those Berlin colleagues who served as panel moderators and contributed vividly to the discussions: Ulrike Auga (Humboldt University, Berlin), Susan Baller (Humboldt University, Berlin), and Achim von Oppen (Centre for Modern Oriental Studies, now University of Bayreuth), as well as to the student assistants and secretaries who made a great contribution in the organization of the event: Maria Framke, Astrid Kiesewetter, Moïse
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