Black Lives Under Nazism : : Making History Visible in Literature and Art / / Sarah Phillips Casteel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2024
• VerfasserIn: Casteel, Sarah Phillips,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2024]; 2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Language: English
• Series: Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

In a little-known chapter of World War II, Black people living in Nazi Germany and occupied Europe were subjected to ostracization, forced sterilization, and incarceration in internment and concentration camps. In the absence of public commemoration, African diaspora writers and artists have preserved the stories of these forgotten victims of the Third Reich. Their works illuminate the relationship between creative expression and wartime survival and the role of art in the formation of collective memory.This groundbreaking book explores a range of largely overlooked literary and artistic works that challenge the invisibility of Black wartime history. Emphasizing Black agency, Sarah Phillips Casteel examines both testimonial art by victims of the Nazi regime and creative works that imaginatively reconstruct the wartime period. Among these are the internment art of Caribbean painter Josef Nassy, the survivor memoir of Black German journalist Hans J. Massaquoi, the jazz fiction of African American novelist John A. Williams and Black Canadian novelist Esi Edugyan, and the photomontages of Scottish Ghanaian visual artist Maud Sulter. Bridging Black and Jewish studies, this book identifies the significance of African diaspora experiences and artistic expression for Holocaust history, memory, and representation.