Remembering German-Australian Colonial Entanglements
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 Cooks voyages through to the legacies of 19th- and 20th-century settler colonialism foreground the highly ambiguous roles played by explorers, missionaries, intellectuals and other individuals, as well as by objects and things that travelled between worlds ancestral human remains, rare animal skins, songs and even military tanks. The chapters foreground the complex relationship between science, religion, art and exploitation, displacement and annihilation. Contributors trace how these entanglements have been commemorated or forgotten over time by Germans, settler-Australians and Indigenous people.
Bringing to light a critical understanding of the German involvement in the Australian colonial project, Remembering German-Australian Colonial Entanglements will be of great interest to scholars of colonialism, postcolonialism, German Studies and Indigenous Studies. But for the editors substantial new introductory chapter, these contributions originally appeared in a special issue of Postcolonial Studies.
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.
Remembering German-Australian Colonial Entanglements
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First published 2018
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Contents
Lars Eckstein and Andrew W. Hurley
Lars Eckstein
Anja Schwarz
Lindsay Barrett
Monica. C. van der Haagen-Wulff
Fredericka van der Lubbe
Dennis Mischke
Felicity Jensz
Andrew W. Hurley
The following chapters were originally published in Postcolonial Studies, volume 21, number 1 (March 2018). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Chapter 2
Recollecting bones: the remains of German-Australian colonial entanglements
Lars Eckstein
Postcolonial Studies, volume 21, number 1 (March 2018), pp. 619
Chapter 3
Schomburgks Chook: the entangled South Australian collections of a German naturalist
Anja Schwarz
Postcolonial Studies, volume 21, number 1 (March 2018), pp. 2034
Chapter 4
Mephisto
Lindsay Barrett
Postcolonial Studies, volume 21, number 1 (March 2018), pp. 3548
Chapter 5
Gorgobad: reflections on a German-Australian family biography
Monica. C. van der Haagen-Wulff
Postcolonial Studies, volume 21, number 1 (March 2018), pp. 4964
Chapter 6
Reports of the Cook voyages in the Hamburgischer Correspondent
Fredericka van der Lubbe
Postcolonial Studies, volume 21, number 1 (March 2018), pp. 6582
Chapter 7
A universal, uniform humanity: the German newspaper Der Kosmopolit and entangled nation-building in nineteenth-century Australia
Dennis Mischke
Postcolonial Studies, volume 21, number 1 (March 2018), pp. 8385
Chapter 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
Postcolonial Studies, volume 21, number 1 (March 2018), pp. 96112
Chapter 9
Remembering Hermannsburg and the Strehlows in cantata form: music, the German-Australian past and reconciliation
Andrew W. Hurley
Postcolonial Studies, volume 21, number 1 (March 2018), pp. 113129
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Lindsay Barrett is Honorary Research Associate, School of International Studies, University of Technology Sydney, Australia, and was formerly Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at Western Sydney University. He holds a PhD in Cultural Studies from the UTS. He is the author of The Prime Ministers Christmas Present: Blue Poles and Cultural Politics in the Whitlam Era (2011).
Lars Eckstein is Professor of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures outside of Britain and the US at the University of Potsdam, Germany. He trained in Postcolonial Studies at the University of Tbingen, Germany. Most recently, he published a book-length research essay with Anja Schwarz, The Making of Tupaias Map (2019).
Monica C. van der Haagen-Wulff currently teaches at the University of Cologne, Germany. She holds a Doctor of Creative Arts (DCA) from the University of Technology Sydney where she also taught Indonesian Language and Culture and Cultural Studies. Andrew Wright Hurley is Associate Professor of German Studies at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. He trained in German Studies at the University of Melbourne. Andrews most recent monograph is Ludwig Leichhardts Ghosts: The Strange Career of a Traveling Myth (2018).
Felicity Jensz is a member of the Exzellenzcluster Religion und Politik, WWU Mnster. She holds a PhD in History from the University of Melbourne, Australia. She is the author of Moravian Missionaries in the British Colony of Victoria, Australia, 18481908: Strangers in a Strange Land