| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 261 pages) : illustrations |
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Anthem studies in Australian literature and culture |
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Anthem studies in Australian literature and culture.
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| Contents |
Front Matter; Half Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgments; Chapters; Introduction South by East: World Literature's Cold War Compass; Part I Contexts and Frames; Chapter 1. Censorship, Australian Literature and Foreign-Language Books in East German Publishing History; Chapter 2. Towards a Cross-Border Canon: Marcus Clarke's For the Term of His Natural Life Behind the Wall; Chapter 3. Community, Difference, Context: (Re)reading the Contact Zone; Part II Books and Writers |
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Chapter 4. Sedition as Realism: Frank Hardy's Power without Glory Parts the Iron Curtain; Chapter 5. Katharine Susannah Prichard, Dymphna Cusack and 'Women on the Path of Progress'; Chapter 6. Walter Kaufmann: Walking the Tightrope; Chapter 7. Fictionalizing Australia for the GDR: Adventure Writer Joachim Specht; Chapter 8. 'To Do Something for Australian Literature': Anthologizing Australia for the German Democratic Republic of the 1970s; Part III Literary Exchange; Chapter 9. 'There I'm a Nobody; Here I'm a Marxian Writer': Australian Writers in the East |
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Chapter 10. Behind the Wall, through Australian Eyes: Anna Funder's Stasiland; Chapter 11. 'Because It Was Exotic, because It Was so Far Away': Bernhard Scheller in Conversation with Christina Spittel; Back Matter; Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
Exploring the imaginative construction of the post-colonial South by the communist East, this collaborative study of the reception of Australian literature in the German Democratic Republic has resonance for all newly global reckonings of the cultural Cold War |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Australian literature -- Germany (East)
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Australian literature -- History and criticism
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Communism and literature -- Germany (East)
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Australian & Oceanian.
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Australian literature
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Communism and literature
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Literatur
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Rezeption
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Germany (East)
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Australien
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Deutschland DDR
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Aufsatzsammlung.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Moore, Nicole, 1969- editor.
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Spittel, Christina, editor.
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| ISBN |
178308524X |
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9781783085248 |
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9781783085255 |
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1783085258 |
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