| Australian Literature in the German Democratic Republic: Reading Through the Iron Curtain Contributor(s): Moore, Nicole (Editor), Spittel, Christina (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1783085231 ISBN-13: 9781783085231 Publisher: Anthem Press OUR PRICE: $109.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Australian & Oceanian - History | Europe - Germany - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 820.999 |
| LCCN: 2016002464 |
| Series: Anthem Studies in Australian Literature and Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6" W x 9" (1.26 lbs) 274 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Oceania - Cultural Region - Germany - Cultural Region - Australian - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |