How can contemporary Australian literature and culture be 'imagined' from abroad? What particular refractions may emerge out of an expatriate reflection upon Antipodean literature and culture? This collection of essays summarizes fifteen...

This book suggests that linguistic translation is one minute province of an immense process of creative activity that constitutes the world as an ongoing dynamism of unceasing transformation. Building upon the speculative quantum gravity...

The frontier has been the central metaphorical figure governing discursive configurations in the last two decades in Australia. The cultural landscape since the Australian High Court's 'Mabo' decision of 1992 has been increasingly openly...

The history of human interaction around the globe with its extraordinary mobility, hostility, productivity and creativity has clearly been driven as much by the infringement of borders as by their maintenance. This collection of essays...

2004 jährte sich zum hundertsten Mal der Ausbruch des Deutsch-Namibischen Krieges (1904-1908) im damaligen Deutsch-Su¡dwestafrika, der im Genozid an den Herero- bzw. Nama-Völkern gipfelte. Der Versöhnungsprozess findet langsam und vor...