Australian Literature in the German Democratic Republic Reading Through the Iron Curtain

Exploring the imaginative construction of the post-colonial South by the communist East, this collaborative study of the reception of Australian literature in the German Democratic Republic has resonance for all newly global reckonings of the cultural Cold War.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Nicole Moore (Editor), Christina Spittel (Editor), Moore Nicole (Editor), Spittel Christina (Editor)
• Authors: Nicole Spittel Moore
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 30.09.2019
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Fiction > Poetry, drama
• EAN: 9781785271793
• ISBN: 978-1-78527-179-3
• Pages: 274
• Series: Anthem Studies in Australian Literature and Culture
• Subjects: HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, Germany, Australia, HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand, LITERARY CRITICISM / Australian & Oceanian, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature: history and criticism, Australasian and Pacific history, East Germany, Ddr, Australia and New Zealand / Aotearoa