Rudolf Bader Bücher

Postcolonial Literatures in English have emerged as a vital area of global research. This series of introductory readers focuses on various regions, including South Asia, Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific, Africa, Canada, the Caribbean, and Black and Asian British Literatures. The edited collections aim to assist students and educators in navigating the diverse cultural networks that have developed from the British Empire and Commonwealth. Each volume features an introduction outlining major regional trends and offers recommendations for further reading. The specific characteristics of each region are examined through the lenses of history, identity, language, education, movements, genres, and transcultural perspectives. The second volume addresses Australia, New Zealand, and the Anglophone South Pacific, an area that remains largely unfamiliar to European readers despite increasing global interactions. This unfamiliarity stems from geographical remoteness and the varied historical recognition of the region's ethnicities, societies, religions, and linguistic outcomes. Additionally, the recent struggles of indigenous peoples for cultural recognition have not yet fully penetrated European awareness. This collection aims to enhance understanding and stimulate further research and critical discussions on the cultural dynamics of this significant yet often overlooked region.

Anglo-Australian literature has originally developed out of British literature, with which it has always been engaged in a continuous intertextual dialogue, so it is dependent on the British literary tradition. The result of this condition is a cultural tension between Australia and Britain. Subjective, socially-based literary images projected from the Australian context about Britain, about Australia's cultural roots, about its progenitors and its believed sources in Europe, have grown directly out of this tension and reveal the conscious and unconscious development of the Anglo-Australian mind within its given cultural condition.