Otherness Barossa
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In Search of an Identity
Author: Johann Peter Weiss
language: en
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Release Date: 2000
Since the dawn of Australian white settlement, Anglo-Australians, German-Australians and a multitude of other ethnic minorities were (and are) in search of an identity. This study aims to provide some answers to their quest and contains thoughts on other contemporary and historical aspects of life in Australia.
Antipodean Encounters
Author: Alan Corkhill
language: en
Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers
Release Date: 1990
This is the first comprehensive documentation and critical appraisal of the fascinating range of German literary responses to the Fifth Continent prior to colonisation and to watersheds in Australia's social history during the first 130 years of white settlement. The literature surveyed encompasses emigration handbooks, diaries, travelogues, exotic romance, adventure narratives, juvenile fiction and utopian extravaganzas, as well as a modest corpus of devotional, lyric and polemic verse in anthologies, German-Australian newspaper feuilletons and prisoner-of-war weeklies. Featuring among the better known authors are Therese Huber, Amalie Schoppe, Friedrich Gerstäcker, Sophie Wörishöffer, Friedrich Mader and Paul Scheerbart. But equal prominence is given to versatile 'migrant' writers such as Theodor Müller and Stefan von Kotze.
Why Germany?
Why did antisemitism assume its ultimate and most deadly form in Germany and not in other countries which, at the turn of the century, showed an equal penchant for blaming their Jewish citizens for all the tensions of modernity? A comparative and inter-disciplinary investigation of the whole complex of factors - economic, political, historical and social-psychological - which led to the quantum leap from "normal antisemitism" - superficially no more marked than in neighbouring countries - to the acceptance of the Nazi policy and practice of genocide. The author confronts both the paradoxes of the German-Jewish experience - the extraordinary initial success, and the devastating subsequent failure, of assimilation - and the complex patterns of assimilation and rejection in other European societies.