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5191 -- REINHARDT, THOMAS

"And the Tom-Toms beat [...]". Figuren der europäischen Imagination und das afroamerikanische Afrikabild von den Anfängen bis zur Äthiopienkrise 1935
Paideuma 48.2002:207-223

Creations of European imagination and the Afro-American image of Africa from the beginnings to the Ethiopia Crisis in 1935
This essay contemplates the image of Africa as reflected in poems and other texts full of stereotypes. This includes topics like the slave trade, impressions of the continent, relations with America, emigration and re-migration, and in general: what and how Africa ´is´.

Keywords: stereotypes of Africa, ´Africanism´, slave trade, emigration, re-migration, essentializing Africa

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