1st Edition

Remembering German-Australian Colonial Entanglements

Edited By Lars Eckstein, Andrew Wright Hurley Copyright 2020
164 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

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. Case studies ranging from the German reception of James Cook’s voyages through to the legacies of 19th- and 20th- century settler... Read more

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

Biography



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.