Australian Literature in the German Democratic Republic (eBook, PDF)

Reading through the Iron Curtain
Redaktion: Moore, Nicole; Spittel, Christina

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

An account of fraught and complex cross-cultural literary exchange between two highly distinct - even uniquely opposed - reading contexts, Australian Literature in the German Democratic Republic has resonance for all newly global reckonings of the cultural Cold War. Working from the extraordinary records of the East German publishing and censorship regime, the authors materially track the production and reception of one country's corpus as envisioned by another. The 90 Australian titles published in the GDR form an alternative canon, revealing a shadowy literary archive that rewrites Australia's postwar cultural history from behind the iron curtain and illuminates multiple ironies for the GDR as a 'reading nation'. This book brings together leading German and Australian scholars in the fields of book history, German and Australian cultural history, Australian and postcolonial literatures, and postcolonial and cross-cultural theory, with emerging writers currently navigating between the two cultures.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783085248
• Artikelnr.: 45972444

Autorenporträt

Edited by Nicole Moore and Christina Spittel

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - South by East: World literature's Cold-War Compass, Nicole
Moore and Christina Spittel; PART I: Contexts and Frames; 1. Censorship,
Australian Literature and Foreign Language Books in East German Publishing
History, Siegfried Lokatis; 2. Towards a Cross-Border Canon: Marcus
Clarke's For the Term of His Natural Life Behind the Wall, Russell
West-Pavlov; 3. Community, Difference, Context: (Re)reading the Contact
Zone, Jennifer Wawrzinek; PART II: Books and Writers; 4. Sedition as
Realism: Frank Hardy's Power without Glory Parts the Iron Curtain, Nicole
Moore; 5. Katharine Susannah Prichard, Dymphna Cusack and 'Women on the
Path of Progress', Camille Barrera; 6. Walter Kaufmann: Walking the
Tightrope, Alexandra Ludewig; 7. Fictionalising Australia for the GDR:
Adventure Writer Joachim Specht, Patricia F. Blume; 8. 'To Do Something for
Australian Literature': Anthologising Australian Literature for the German
Democratic Republic of the 1970s, Christina Spittel; PART III: Literary
Exchange; 9. 'There I'm a nobody, here I'm a Marxian writer': Australian
Writers in the East, Susan Lever; 10. Behind the Wall through Australian
Eyes: Anna Funder's Stasiland, Leah Gerber; 11. 'Because it was Exotic,
because it was so Far Away': Bernhard Scheller in Conversation with
Christina Spittel