Editorial
From the Editors
Contributors
Essays
The “Great Australian Silence,” the “Cult of Forgetfulness” and the Hegemony of Memory
Mitchell Rolls
Politics, clichés and the “lurky country”: Murray Bail’s critique of national mythologies in Holden’s Performance
Michael Ackland
Genteel pursuits in the bush: Colonial gentlewomen’s appreciation of rural Australia in the mid-19th century
Ildiko Dömötor
Von profanen Sammlerinnen zu sakralen sammelndenJägerinnen: Anmerkungen zu Geschlechterstereotypen australischer Aborigines
Sybille Kästner
Ludwig Salvator: Reise um die Welt ohne zu wollen
Eva Meidl
Alex Miller’s Utopian Vision of a Bi-Cultural AustralianIdentity in his Novel Journey to the Stone Country
Anne Koch
Einbindung der Repräsentation von MigrantInnenin ein nationales australisches Kino
J. Seipel
Review Essay
Uncovering the German Aborigine
Oliver Haag
Reviews
Xavier Pons: Messengers of Eros: Representations of Sex in Australian Writing.
Susanne Braun-Bau
Ouyang Yu: Beyond the Yellow Pale, Essays and Criticism.
Heide Fruth-Sachs
Australian Government, Bureau of Meteorology, ed. Climate of Australia.
Reinhold Grotz
Don Garden: Droughts, Floods & Cyclones. El Niños that shaped our colonial past.
Boris Braun
Tiffany Shellam, Shaking Hands on the Fringe. Negotiating the Aboriginal World at King George’s Sound.
Oliver Haag
Bianca de Loryn: Alltag in Australien – Auswandern, Leben und Arbeiten. Ein praktischer Ratgeber für alle Neuankömmlinge.
Henriette von Holleuffer
Jean-François Vernay: Water from the Moon: Illusion and Reality in the Works of Australian Novelist Christopher Koch.
Igor Maver
Andreas Gaile: Rewriting History: Peter Carey’s Fictional Biography of Australia.
Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp
David Callahan: Rainforest Narratives: The Work ofJanette Turner Hospital.
Marion Spies
Peter Sutton: The Politics of Suffering: Indigenous Australia and the End of the Liberal Consensus.
Adi Wimmer
Creative Literature
Rita Huggins und Jackie Huggins: Die Stimme meiner Mutter.
Elisabeth Bähr
Nam Le: The Boat.
Peter Stummer
John Mateer: The West. Australian Poems 1989-2009.
Werner Senn