Exploring the imaginative construction of the post-colonial South by the communist East, this is a multi-faceted, collaborative study of the reception of Australian literature in the German Democratic Republic. An account of fraught and complex cross-cultural literary exchange between two highly distinct, even uniquely opposed reading contexts, this study has resonance for all newly global reckonings of the cultural Cold War.
Australian Literature in the German Democratic Republic is an investigative expose of Australian literature's revealing career in East Germany....
Exploring the imaginative construction of the post-colonial South by the communist East, this is a multi-faceted, collaborative study of the recept...