TY - BOOK ID - 85920611 TI - The genocidal gaze : from German Southwest Africa to the Third Reich PY - 2017 SN - 0814343864 0814343856 PB - Detroit, Michigan : Wayne State Uiversity Press, DB - UniCat KW - Genocide in literature KW - Genocide KW - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature KW - Postcolonialism in literature KW - History and criticism. KW - Germany KW - Colonies KW - Cleansing, Ethnic KW - Ethnic cleansing KW - Ethnic purification KW - Ethnocide KW - Purification, Ethnic KW - Crime KW - Herero (African people) KW - Nama (African people) KW - Witbooi, Hendrik, KW - Namibia KW - History KW - German Studies KW - Jewish Studies KW - Herero people KW - Nama people KW - Morenga (film) KW - Namakwa (African people) KW - Naman (African people) KW - Namaqua (African people) KW - Rooi Nasie (African people) KW - Ethnology KW - Khoikhoi (African people) KW - Hereros KW - Herrero (African people) KW - Ochiherero (African people) KW - Ovaherero (African people) KW - Bantu-speaking peoples KW - Damara (African people) KW - Namibia ye Likuluhile KW - Namibi KW - Namibii͡ KW - Republic of Namibia KW - S.W.A./Namibia KW - South-West Africa KW - SWA/Namibia KW - SWA/Namibi KW - Namibia. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85920611 AB - The first genocide of the twentieth century, though not well known, was committed by Germans between 1904-1907 in the country we know today as Namibia, where they exterminated hundreds of Herero and Nama people and subjected the surviving indigenous men, women, and children to forced labor. The perception of Africans as subhuman "lacking any kind of civilization, history, or meaningful religion" and the resulting justification for the violence against them is what author Elizabeth R. Baer refers to as the "genocidal gaze" an attitude that was later perpetuated by the Nazis. In The Genocidal Gaze: From German Southwest Africa to the Third Reich, Baer uses the metaphor of the gaze to trace linkages between the genocide of the Herero and Nama and that of the victims of the Holocaust. Significantly, Baer also considers the African gaze of resistance returned by the indigenous people and their leaders upon the German imperialists. ER -