Australian literature in the German Democratic Republic : reading through the Iron Curtain /: reading through the Iron Curtain. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Nicole Moore and Christina Spittel.
• Editors: Moore, Nicole, 1969-; Spittel, Christina
• 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. 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. 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.
• Publisher Details: London, UK : Anthem Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Copyright Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (xii, 261 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 820.9/99409431; Australian literature -- Germany (East); Australian literature -- History and criticism; Communism and literature -- Germany (East); LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; LITERARY CRITICISM -- Australian & Oceanian; Australian literature; Communism and literature; Literatur; Rezeption; Germany (East); Australien; Deutschland; Electronic books; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Aufsatzsammlung; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781783085248; 9781783085255; 1783085258
• Related ISBNs: 178308524X; 1783085231; 9781783085231
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.