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This groundbreaking book explores a range of largely overlooked literary and artistic works that challenge the invisibility of Black wartime history.

In a little-known chapter of World War II, Black people living in Nazi Germany and occupied Europe were subjected to ostracization, forced sterilization, and incarceration in internment and concentration camps. In the absence of public commemoration, African diaspora writers and artists have preserved the stories of these forgotten victims of the Third Reich. Their works illuminate the relationship between creative expression and wartime survival and the role of art in the formation of collective memory.

This groundbreaking book explores a range of largely overlooked literary and artistic works that challenge the invisibility of Black wartime history. Emphasizing Black agency, Sarah Phillips Casteel examines both testimonial art by victims of the Nazi regime and creative works that imaginatively reconstruct the wartime period. Among these are the internment art of Caribbean painter Josef Nassy, the survivor memoir of Black German journalist Hans J. Massaquoi, the jazz fiction of African American novelist John A. Williams and Black Canadian novelist Esi Edugyan, and the photomontages of Scottish Ghanaian visual artist Maud Sulter. Bridging Black and Jewish studies, this book identifies the significance of African diaspora experiences and artistic expression for Holocaust history, memory, and representation.

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Sarah Phillips Casteels beautifully written Black Lives Under Nazism offers a startling new account of the memory of World War II and the Holocaust that centers Black artists and writers. Moving from internment camp art and memoirs by historical eyewitnesses to the novels, photography, and dance of later generations, Casteels book reveals how certain histories are rendered invisible while simultaneously showing us the power of art and literature to reanimate the forgotten past and decolonize hegemonic perspectives. Black Lives Under Nazism is a fascinating work of recovery and a strong argument for a relational approach to memory. -- Michael Rothberg, author of The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators Sarah Phillips Casteels rich, imaginative, and compelling study seeks to make visible the Black experience of the wartime period. Through her deft analysis of a diverse range of Black testimonial and creative work she brilliantly illustrates the limitations and possibilities these offer in creating countermemories of the Holocaust. -- Robbie Aitken, coauthor of Black Germany: The Making and Unmaking of a Diaspora Community, 1884-1960 The experience of people of African descent in the Third Reich has been hauntingly absent in the public imagination of the Holocaust. With her penetrating and sophisticated study, Sarah Casteel illuminates the lived histories of Black victims and survivors of the Nazi regime, thereby expanding the canon of Holocaust representation. -- Erin McGlothlin, author of The Mind of the Holocaust Perpetrator in Fiction and Nonfiction Black Lives Under Nazism provides an in-depth analysis of a largely unknown corpus of Black African diaspora artworks and literature that address Black lives under Nazism. By making this corpus coherently visible, this book illuminates the complex relations of Black and Jewish experiences in World War II Europe and challenges extant scholarship in Black and Holocaust Studies. -- Chigbo Arthur Anyaduba, author of The Postcolonial African Genocide Novel: Quests for Meaningfulness

Preface and Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Invisible and Invented Archives
Part I: Documenting the Past: The Artist as Witness
Introduction to Part I
1. Outside the Frame: Josef Nassys Visual Diary of Internment in Nazi
Germany
2. Broken Citizenship: Survivor Memoirs by Hans J. Massaquoi, Theodor
Michael, and John William
Part II: Imagining the Past: The Artist as Historian
Introduction to Part II
3. Jazz Fiction and the Holocaust: Testimonial Objects in the Novels of John
A. Williams and Esi Edugyan
4. Performing to Survive: Queen of the Trumpet Valaida Snow in Fiction,
Drama, and Graphic Narrative
5. Postmemorial Landscapes of Black Europe: Maud Sulters Alpine
Photomontages
Coda: Dancing Out History in Oxana Chis Durch Gärten Tanzen
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Sarah Phillips Casteel is professor of English at Carleton University, where she is cross-appointed to the Institute of African Studies, and a member of the Holocaust Educational Foundations Academic Council. Her most recent books are Calypso Jews: Jewishness in the Caribbean Literary Imagination (Columbia, 2016) and the coedited volume Caribbean Jewish Crossings: Literary History and Creative Practice (2019).