Migration and Cultural Contact: Germany and Australia
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Migration and Cultural Contact: Germany and Australia
By (Author) Dr Andrea Bandhauer
Edited by Maria Veber
Sydney University Press
Sydney University Press
1st February 2010
Australia
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
391
Physical Properties
Paperback
254
Width 148mm, Height 210mm, Spine 14mm
360g
Description
The collected essays in Migration and Cultural Contact: Germany and Australia investigate historical documents, letters, film, literature and other cultural sources to reveal how each country influenced the culture, intellectual thought and aesthetics of the other from earliest colonial times through to today.
Opening with the cultural and religious legacy of Carl Strehlow's missionary work at Hermannsburg, its impact on Freud's cultural anthropology and DaDa, the book investigates the different aspects of the German presence in Australia: from the 19th-century migrations to the 'enemy aliens' of two world wars. Other essays explore representations of Australia in the German literary imagination: is it Europe's Utopia or Paradise Lost
Author Bio
About the editors:
Andrea Bandhauer is a senior lecturer in Germanic studies at the University of Sydney.
Maria Veber is a member of the academic teaching staff in the Germanic studies department at the University of Sydney.
