Review of: Eva Blome: Reinheit und Vermischung. Literarisch-kulturelle Entwürfe von ‚Rasse‘ und Sexualität (1900–1930). Köln u.a.: Böhlau Verlag 2011.

Abstract

For the first time, Eva Blome’s comprehensive dissertation deals with the interdiscoursive transformations of the topic ‘miscegenation’ in the German colonial context from a literary studies perspective. In discussing the German-language colonial literature from around 1900 and the art and literature of European primitivism and in conclusively dealing with theories of culture and race of the Weimar Republic, the author focuses on the usage of ‘miscegenation’ as a biopolitical and poetological figure of reasoning. The book’s most central merits are that it fills a research niche and that it poses additional research questions on the topic of ‘racially’ transgressive sexuality.