Australian Literature in the German Democratic Republic

Nicole Moore is a professor of English at the University of New South Wales and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow.Christina Spittel is a lecturer in English at the University of New South Wales.

• 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

Translation Literature November 2017 Issue