Life Writing and the Southern Hemisphere: Texts, Spaces, Resonances by Boehmer, Elleke

Life Writing and the Southern Hemisphere: Texts, Spaces, Resonances (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781350360754)

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Life Writing and the Southern Hemisphere: Texts, Spaces, Resonances by Boehmer, Elleke

Life Writing and the Southern Hemisphere: Texts, Spaces, Resonances

$100.00
Life Writing and the Southern Hemisphere: Texts, Spaces, Resonances by Boehmer, Elleke

Life Writing and the Southern Hemisphere: Texts, Spaces, Resonances

$100.00
Format: Hardcover
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Exploring lives lived, written and narrated in and from the Global South, the far South and the ultimate South, Antarctica, this book asks how life writing from southerly compass points impact both how we understand and read life narratives, and ultimately how we perceive our planet.Southern geographies, histories and lives have often been overlooked and defined by northern perspectives; Life Writing and the Southern Hemisphereredresses this North/South alignment in its critical examination of life stories, memoirs, biographies and autobiographies from the southern hemisphere, providing a countervailing and alternative perspective that will unsettle, challenge and enrich the imaginative norms that inform life writing studies.

From Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia in South America, through southern Africa, to Australia and New Zealand and as far down as Antarctica, this collection brings together writers and scholars in the oceanic humanities, postcolonial, Global South and polar studies, and presents works on human, animal and plant life captured in words, music, performance, visual arts and photography. Interdisciplinary and vast in its comparative range, Life Writing and the Southern Hemisphereconvenes a diversity of perspectives and positions that demonstrate that the south has rich internal knowledge sources of its own, allowing us to better conceptualize the planet 'from below'.

Author: Elleke Boehmer
ISBN-10: 1350360759
ISBN-13: 9781350360754
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 12/12/2024
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.37lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d
By Elleke Boehmer
By Elleke Boehmer
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Elleke Boehmer is Professor of World Literature in English at the University of Oxford, UK, and Governing Body Fellow at Wolfson College. Internationally renowned for her research in post-colonial theory and the literature of empire, Professor Boehmer currently works on questions of migration, identity, and resistance in both colonial and post-colonial literature (sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia). She has published over eighteen books, including four novels; her best-selling biography of Nelson Mandela has been translated into Arabic, Portuguese, and Thai. She obtained her doctorate from Oxford University, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar.

Katherine Collins is a poet and Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, UK. Her research spans the creative and critical practices involved in the writing of marginalised lives, such as the politics and poetics of life writing, testimonial cultures and witnessing, and autobiographies of resistance.

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