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    Animal magic: shape-shifting bodies in Lotte Reiniger's Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed by Palfreyman, Rachel

    Published 2013
    “…It is thus insufficient to characterize her work as lacking political relevance to the historical reality of the Weimar Republic. Reading Reiniger’s film with a materialist philosophy of becoming reveals a broader conceptual and political challenge to viewers to rethink the nature of the body as not a single fixed essence, but as a fluid, metamorphosing multiplicity.…”
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    Post-imperialism, postcolonialism and beyond: towards a periodisation of cultural discourse about colonial legacies by Göttsche, Dirk

    Published 2017
    “…The deliberate blending of a historical, a conceptual and a political understanding of the ‘postcolonial’ in postcolonial scholarship raises problems of periodisation and historical terminology when, for example, anti-colonial discourse from the colonial period or colonialist discourse in Weimar Germany are labelled ‘postcolonial’. The colonial revisionism of Germany’s interwar period is more usefully classed as post-imperial, as are particular strands of retrospective engagement with colonial history and legacy in British, French and other European literatures and cultures after 1945. …”
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