Comparing to Make Explicit: Diasporic Articulations of the Herero Communities in Namibia
In: Diaspora and Memory
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Anette Hoffmann
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Abstract
Comparing to Make Explicit: Diasporic Articulations of the Herero Communities in Namibia
This essay revolves around the implications of understanding certain conditions of life in the post-colony as diasporic. Herero communities who have been deprived of their land and who had to flee during and after the colonial war of 1904-1907 articulate their experience of being diasporic in terms of the loss and the alienation from the land, but also by means of allusions to Judaism and Jewish history. In this essay, Hoffmann seeks to distinguish the tactical value of these comparisons from their importance for an articulation of the predicaments of the post-colony.