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