German-Australian Encounters and Cultural Transfers Global Dynamics in Transnational Lands /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Nickl, Benjamin (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Herrschner, Irina (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Goździak, Elżbieta M. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Global Germany in Transnational Dialogues,
• Subjects: Emigration and immigration.; Globalization.; Culture-Study and teaching.; Philology.; Linguistics.; Migration.; Regional and Cultural Studies.; Language and Literature.

This book approaches Australo-German relations from comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives. It maps new pathways into the rich landscape of the Australo-German transnational encounter, which is characterized by dense and interwoven cultural, historical and political terrains. Surveying an as...

Table of Contents:

• Post-Colonial Narratives of Australian Indigeneity in Austria: The Essl Exhibition on Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Art
• Early German and Austrian migration to Australia
• A rereading of Germans as mediators of Australian identities and history
• The Australian and German Film Festival as transnational spaces
• Muslim German film reframed for Australian public television
• Translations of Australian children literature for German audiences.-  Part III: Music and Media
• The philanthropic history of social relation between Australian and German church musicians
• Transnational connections between Germany and Australia in art
• Transnational Music Connections: Berlin and Melbourne
• Experimental short films between Germany and Australia
• A comparison of educational systems in Germany and Australia
• Cultural diplomacy connecting Germany and Australia
• Multiculturalism and cultural heterogeneity in Germany and Australia
• Conclusion.