Continuing a strand of postcolonial literary engagement with Africa that is epitomized by Urs Widmer's striking novel Im Kongo, Steinaecker's Schutzgebiet focuses postcolonial critique almost exclusively on the meta-level of German and European discourses about Africa and the colonial period. This approach contrasts sharply with the tradition established by Timm's Morenga and continued through Seyfried's Herero and Capus's Eine Frage der Zeit of rereading colonial history critically on the basis of historical fact and evidence, although also with an emphasis on the critical memory of German and European colonial involvement rather than the experiences and perspectives of the colonized. The novels discussed in this chapter, however, take a third approach, rewriting European colonial narratives on the basis of historical material, but with a focus on cross-cultural and transcultural experience in colonial space. They reassess the colonial contact zone as a site of the blurring of cultural boundaries that affects both parties involved, the colonial Europeans in Africa and the local Africans with whom they interact. Novels in this tradition therefore tend to rethink colonial encounters in similar ways to Homi Bhabha and other postcolonial theorists concerned with migration and cultural hybridization, and they use the representation of cross-cultural experience to unsettle both colonialist narratives of European superiority and control over African primitivism and chaos, and colonial legacies in contemporary discourses about Africa and Africans, such as the relevant tropes of exoticism and the binary discourse of “us” versus “the Other.”