Format:
xii, 261 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
,
24 cm
ISBN:
9781783085231
,
1783085231
Series Statement:
Anthem studies in Australian literature and culture
Content:
An account of fraught and complex cross-cultural literary exchange between two highly distinct - even uniquely opposed - reading contexts, Reading Through the Iron Curtain 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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781783085255
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781783085248
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Australien
;
Literatur
;
Rezeption
;
Deutschland
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Author information:
Spittel, Christina
Author information:
Moore, Nicole 1969-
