Australian Literature in the German Democratic Republic

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A genuinely collaborative, cross-cultural examination of the publication and reception of Australian literature in the German Democratic Republic, this work is a revealing case study for newly global accounts of the cultural Cold War.

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.

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

Sujets

• HISTORY
• Germany
• Europe

Informations

• Publié par: Anthem Press
• Date de parution: 19 juin 2016
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781783085255
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Australian Literature in the German Democratic Republic
Anthem Studies in Australian Literature and Culture
Anthem Studies in Australian Literature and Culture specialises in quality, innovative research in Australian literary studies. The series publishes work that advances contemporary scholarship on Australian literature conceived historically, thematically and/or conceptually. We welcome well-researched and incisive analyses on a broad range of topics: from individual authors or texts to considerations of the field as a whole, including in comparative or transnational frames.
Series Editors
Katherine Bode - Australian National University, Australia
Nicole Moore - University of New South Wales, Australia
Editorial Board
Tanya Dalziell - University of Western Australia, Australia
Delia Falconer - University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
John Frow - University of Sydney, Australia
Wang Guanglin - Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, China
Ian Henderson - King s College London, UK
Tony Hughes-D Aeth - University of Western Australia, Australia
Ivor Indyk - University of Western Sydney, Australia
Nicholas Jose - University of Adelaide, Australia
James Ley - Sydney Review of Books , Australia
Andrew McCann - Dartmouth College, USA
Lyn McCredden - Deakin University, Australia
Elizabeth McMahon - University of New South Wales, Australia
Susan Martin - La Trobe University, Australia
Brigitta Olubas - University of New South Wales, Australia
Anne Pender - University of New England, Australia
Fiona Polack - Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Sue Sheridan - University of Adelaide, Australia
Ann Vickery - Deakin University, Australia
Russell West-Pavlov - Eberhard-Karls-Universit t T bingen, Germany
Lydia Wevers - Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Gillian Whitlock - University of Queensland, Australia
Australian Literature in the German Democratic Republic
Reading through the Iron Curtain
Edited by Nicole Moore and Christina Spittel
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Names: Moore, Nicole, editor. | Spittel, Christina, editor.
Title: Australian Literature in the German Democratic Republic : reading through the Iron Curtain / edited by Nicole Moore and Christina Spittel.
Description: London : Anthem Press, 2016. | Series: Anthem studies in Australian literature and culture | Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016002464 | ISBN 9781783085231 (hardback : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Australian literature-Germany (East) | Australian literature-History and criticism. | Communism and literature-Germany (East)
Classification: LCC PR9605.3 .A87 2016 | DDC 820.9/99409431-dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2016002464
ISBN-13: 978 1 78308 523 1 (Hbk)
ISBN-10: 1 78308 523 1 (Hbk)
Pedestrians in front of state-owned bookstore Haus des Buches in the small East German town of Bautzen; photograph by Klaus Franke, 22 February 1964 (BArch Berlin, Digital Picture Archives 183-C0222-0006-001).
CONTENTS
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements Introduction. South by East: World Literature s Cold War Compass Nicole Moore and Christina Spittel Part I. CONTEXTS AND FRAMES Chapter 1 . Censorship, Australian Literature and Foreign-Language Books in East German Publishing History Siegfried Lokatis Chapter 2 . Towards a Cross-Border Canon: Marcus Clarke s For the Term of His Natural Life Behind the Wall Russell West-Pavlov Chapter 3 . Community, Difference, Context: (Re)reading the Contact Zone Jennifer Wawrzinek Part II. BOOKS AND WRITERS Chapter 4 . Sedition as Realism: Frank Hardy s Power without Glory Parts the Iron Curtain Nicole Moore Chapter 5 . Katharine Susannah Prichard, Dymphna Cusack and Women on the Path of Progress Camille Barrera Chapter 6 . Walter Kaufmann: Walking the Tightrope Alexandra Ludewig Chapter 7 . Fictionalizing Australia for the GDR: Adventure Writer Joachim Specht Patricia F. Blume Chapter 8 . To Do Something for Australian Literature : Anthologizing Australia for the German Democratic Republic of the 1970s Christina Spittel Part III. LITERARY EXCHANGE Chapter 9 . There I m a Nobody; Here I m a Marxian Writer : Australian Writers in the East Susan Lever Chapter 10 . Behind the Wall, through Australian Eyes: Anna Funder s Stasiland Leah Gerber Chapter 11 . Because It Was Exotic, because It Was So Far Away : Bernhard Scheller in Conversation with Christina Spittel
Contributors
Index
FIGURES
0.1 Permission to print form for Marcus Clarke s Lebensl nglich ( For the Term of His Natural Life ) (Berlin: Ministry of Culture, 28 February 1957, BArch DR1/3958a/329-330).
0.2 Neon sign of the Leipzig Kommissions- und Gro buchhandel, the single national wholesaler for GDR books; photograph by Christina Spittel, 2015.
0.3 Cover of Australians Have a Word for It , edited by Gertrude Gelbin, cover design by Lothar Reher (Berlin: Seven Seas, 1964).
2.1 Cover of the fourteenth edition of Marcus Clarke s Lebensl nglich , a large-format paperback, designed by Dieter Heidenreich (Berlin: Volk und Welt, 1982).
3.1 Cover of Fergus Hume s Das Geheimnis des Fiakers (Berlin: Verlag Das Neue Berlin, 1984).
3.2 Dust jacket for Xavier Herbert s Capricornia: Die paradiesische H lle (Berlin: Verlag der Morgen, 1958).
4.1 Cartoon by Noel Counihan for the World Trade Union Movement , no. 2 (20 January 1951): 45. (Reproduced by permission of the Counihan Estate.)
4.2 Cover of Frank Hardy s Macht ohne Ruhm , volume 1 (Berlin: Volk und Welt, 1952).
4.3 Cover of Frank Hardy s Power without Glory, volume 2 (Leipzig: Paul List/Panther Books, 1956).
5.1 Dust jacket for Katharine Susannah Prichard s Goldrausch (Berlin: Volk und Welt, 1954).
5.2 Dust jacket for Katharine Susannah Prichard s Die goldene Meile (Berlin: Volk und Welt, 1954).
5.3 Dust jacket for Dymphna Cusack s Der halbverbrannte Baum (Berlin: Verlag der Nation, 1972).
6.1 Walter Kaufmann signing books in a GDR bookshop; photograph by Klaus Franke, 28 April 1977 (BArch Berlin, Digital Picture Archives 183-S0428-0043).
6.2 Walter Kaufmann and Lissy Kaufmann in Brisbane in 1994, personal photograph provided to Alexandra Ludewig.
7.1 Joachim Specht at an outdoor reading with teenage apprentices in the late 1970s; photographer unknown (Stadtarchiv Dessau-Ro lau, N 3.13 - Specht - 9, 18).
7.2 A group of pupils listening to tales of Australia in a school library; photographer unknown (Stadtarchiv Dessau-Ro lau, N 3.13 - Specht - 10, 62).
7.3 Dust jacket of Joachim Specht s Die Gejagten , designed by well-respected illustrator Hans Baltzer (Berlin: Verlag der Nation, 1966).
7.4 Illustration by Hans Baltzer for the story The Encounter from Joachim Specht s fiction collection Peterborough Story (Berlin: Verlag der Nation, 1963), which was judged one of the most beautiful books of the GDR in 1964.
7.5 Joachim Specht in a reading, his books in front of him on the table. The poster on the wall translates as The GDR my state ; photographer unknown (Stadtarchiv Dessau-Ro lau, N 3.13 - Specht - 10, 179).
7.6 Specht in 2011, at his house, in front of hunting boomerangs and spears; photograph by Patricia F. Blume.
8.1 Bright orange cover for Erkundungen: 31 australische Erz hler (Berlin: Volk und Welt, 1976).
10.1 Cover of the Australian edition of Stasiland (Melbourne: Text, 2002).
10.2 Cover of the second German edition of Stasiland (Frankfurt/Main: Fischer Verlag, 2006).
TABLES
4.1 East German Editions of Hardy Titles.
8.1 Contents of Erkundungen: 31 australische Erz hler .
10.1 Material Omitted from the Second German Edition of Stasiland .
10.2 Corrections Made from the English to German Editions of Stasiland .
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This has been a truly bilingual and collaborative project, with the essays developed in productive and energized face-to-face workshops in Germany and Australia. The editors thank all the contributors for their commitment to this model, which we think has resulted in sustained synergies and suggestive connections among the essays, and properly dual perspectives on cross-cultural exchange. This aspect of the project was enabled by funding from the Deutsche Akademischer Austausch Dienst (German Academic Exchange Service, DAAD), the University of New South Wales, Canberra, and the Freie Universit t, Berlin, as well as by enthused support from the Buchwissenschaft department in the Institute of Communication and Media Studies at the University of Leipzig.
The editors also thank the contributors fo