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Sene, Ibrahima:
Forms and Obstacles of Reparation in Bernhard Jaumann's Der lange Schatten.
In: Laarmann, Mario ; Fongang, Clément Ndé ; Seemann, Carla ; Vordermayer, Laura
(Hrsg.):
Reparation, Restitution, and the Politics of Memory : Perspectives from Literary, Historical, and Cultural Studies = Réparation, restitution et les politiques de la mémoire : Perspectives littéraires, historiques et culturelles. -
Berlin ; Boston
: de Gruyter
,
2023
. - S. 225-242
. - (Beyond Universalism / Partager l’universel
; 3
)
ISBN 978-3-11-079950-7
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110799514-013
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Abstract
A revival of debates on colonialism and its legacies has been observedfor decades, both in the former colonies and in the former metropolises, which areincreasingly dealing with their own colonial heritage. Beyond political and aca-demic discourse, fiction as a social discourse also responds to and sometimes influ-ences these public debates, as it is the case for the novelDer lange Schatten[TheLong Shadow] (2015) by Bernard Jaumann. The material of this crime novel em-bodies memories of the restitution ceremony held at Berlin Charité in 2011 and ofthe shared colonial history between Namibia and Germany. This chapter thereforeanalyses questions of reparation dealt with in Jaumann’s book and the mechanismsof legitimisation or instrumentalisation of historical narratives. Accordingly, thethesis put forward here is that this novel addresses the lack of cohesion betweenthe Namibian government and the Herero and Nama people in contemporary Na-mibia as an obstacle to the recognition of genocide and thus to reparations.