体面问题

Sean Andrew Wempe
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第一章探讨了前官员对殖民地归还的要求,特别强调了德属东非最后一任总督海因里希·施奈尔和德属西南非洲最后一任总督西奥多·塞茨。为了维护帝国/民族的“自我”概念,这些人反对殖民罪恶感的想法,并在一个帝国是这种身份的重要组成部分的世界中重申德国的欧洲性。他们使用由协约国和联盟规范的帝国和文明的新政治词汇,以传统的方式使用它来合法化过去的行为,重申德国的欧洲性,并操纵它来宣称道德上的优越性。因此,他们反对殖民罪行的论点可以分为三类:(1)指出过去对德国殖民记录的赞扬;(2)重新配置“暴力”、“欧洲”和“文明”之间的关系;(3)强调协约国的虚伪,声称自己是帝国新理想的唯一真正体现。这种三重论点的意图是在后殖民形势下保留帝国构成的德意志民族标识符。最终的结果是一场关于殖民地德国人作为一个群体身份的棘手谈判。德国殖民统一主义者与他们的前殖民主体同时声称自己是受害者,但却坚持认为他们与这些群体是分开的,而且比这些群体更先进。他们要求承认“德国人”一词与“欧洲人”一词同义,同时还声称自己在道德上高于欧洲其他文明。
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A Question of Respectability
Chapter 1 explores the demands for colonial restitution by the former officials, with particular emphasis on Heinrich Schnee, the last governor of German East Africa, and Theodor Seitz, the last governor of German Southwest Africa. In order to maintain imperial/national conceptions of the “self,” these individuals argued against the idea of colonial guilt and reasserted German Europeanness in a world where empire was an essential component of this identity. They engaged with the new political vocabulary of empire and civilization made normative by the Allies and the League, using it in conventional ways to legitimate past actions and to reassert German Europeanness as well as manipulating it to claim moral superiority. Their arguments against colonial guilt can therefore be broken into three categories: (1) pointing to past praise of Germany’s colonial record; (2) reconfiguring the relationships between the terms “violence,” “European,” and “civilization”; and (3) highlighting Allied hypocrisies and claiming to be the only true embodiment of the new ideals of empire. The intention of this threefold line of argument was to preserve imperially constituted identifiers of the German nation in a postcolonial situation. The end result was a tricky negotiation of Colonial Germans’ identity as a group. German colonial irredentists simultaneously claimed the status of victim alongside their former colonized subjects, and yet insisted they were separate from and more advanced than these groups. They demanded recognition of the word “German” as synonymous with the term “European,” and yet also claimed moral superiority over the rest of European civilization.
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