Remembering German-Australian Colonial Entanglements

ISBN-13: 9781032084145 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 164 str.

Lars Eckstein; Andrew Wright Hurley

Opis

Remembering German-Australian Colonial Entanglements emphatically promotes a critical and nuanced understanding of the complex entanglement of German colonial actors and activities within Australian colonial institutions and different imperial ideologies.

Spis treści

1. German-Australian colonial entanglements: on German settler colonialism, the wavering interests of exploration, science, mission and migration, and the contestations of travelling memory Lars Eckstein and Andrew W. Hurley 2. Recollecting bones: the remains of German-Australian colonial entanglements Lars Eckstein  3. Schomburgk’s Chook: the entangled South Australian collections of a German naturalist Anja Schwarz  4. Mephisto Lindsay Barrett  5. Gorgobad: reflections on a German-Australian family biography Monica. C. van der Haagen-Wulff  6. Reports of the Cook voyages in the Hamburgischer Correspondent Fredericka van der Lubbe  7. ‘A universal, uniform humanity’: the German newspaper Der Kosmopolit and entangled nation-building in nineteenth-century Australia Dennis Mischke  8. ‘Poor heathens’, ‘Cone-headed natives’ and ‘Good water’: the production of knowledge of the interior of Australia through German texts from around the 1860s Felicity Jensz  9. Remembering Hermannsburg and the Strehlows in cantata form: music, the German-Australian past and reconciliation Andrew W. Hurley

O autorze

Lars Eckstein is Professor of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures outside of Britain and the US at the University of Potsdam, Germany.

Andrew Wright Hurley is Associate Professor of German Studies at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia.