'This book traces German perceptions of Australia through the eyes of seventy German writers. Their literary response varies from travelogues to narrative fiction and poetry. In observing Australia, these writers have also observed themselves: they have explored the cultural self-concept of what it means to be German. Texts surveyed in this history include escapist adventure and didactic Nazi propaganda from the 1930s, fiction of cultural transformation from the 1940s, boys' own tales from the 1950s, the migrant experience of the 1960s, the image of Australia in German writing from the 1970s, and tourist guides from the 1980s.'
Eagle and
Emu,
German-Australian Writing,
University of Queensland Press,
St
Lucia 1992