Belonging and exclusion : case studies in recent Australian and German literature, film and theatre

The essays collected in this volume explore a wide range of aesthetic, philosophical and generic applications of the concepts of belonging and exclusion in the context of migration. Organised in two sections, 'Performing belonging' and 'Narrating otherness', this original study represents a timely interdisciplinary approach to a topic of great contemporary and future interest. It is the first cross-cultural analysis of how belonging and exclusion are created and represented in literature, film and theatre against the background of the different historical and present conditions of migration and 'multiculturalism' in Australia and Germany. Academics from Australia and Germany, two countries described by some as opposite poles on the migration spectrum, uncover new correlations between different cultures and genres. The focus on artistic works offers snapshots, seldom available in everyday life, of belonging and exclusion in process. Written with both academics and students in mind, the essays discuss belonging and exclusion across a variety of genres, including the Bildungsroman, terrorism novel, children's literature, and different kinds of film, cabaret and theatre. Among the topical issues addressed are borders, bodies, education, exile, generations of migrants, globalisation, identity, language, memory, narrative strategies, photography, representation, lieux de mémoire, terrorism and transculturalism.Foreword Irmline Veit-Brause and Walter F. Veit Toward a Comparative History of Australian Literature.--Introduction Ulrike Garde and Anne-Rose Meyer Belonging and Exclusion - An Introduction.-- Part I. Performing Belonging: Mises en scenes of Identity On and Off the Stage and Screen.-- Ulrike Garde Spaces for Performing Belonging: The Use of lieux de memoire in Jewish Migrant Theatre and the Work of Barrie Kosky.-- Margaret Hamilton Questions of 'identity': Staging 'The Cultural Complex Australian Body' in Germany.-- Kerstin Pilz They're a weird mob: Italian Immigrants in German and Australian Cinema.-- Karin Yesilada Turkish-German Movies in Transition: The Filmmaker Fatih Akın.-- Jorn Glasenapp On the Fringes, on the Banks: Frankfurt on the Oder and the German-Polish Border in Andreas Dresen's Halbe Treppe and Hans-Christian Schmid's Lichter.-- Part II. Narrating Otherness: Negotiating Inclusion and Exclusion.--Claudia Lillge How to become an Australian? Photography and Cultural Memory in J.M. Coetzee's Slowman.-- Ortrud Gutjahr Integration Through Education: The New Intercultural Bildungsroman and the Example of Sevgi Ozdamars The Bridge of the Golden Horn.-- John Stephens and Robyn McCallum Positioning Otherness: (Post-)Multiculturalism and Point of View in Australian Young Adult Fiction.--Christiane Weller The Transformations of Exile and Migration - From Ovid to Malouf and Ransmayr.--Anne-Rose Meyer Belonging, Exclusion and Fissure: Terrorism and Radicalism in Recent German and Australian Literature.217 page(s