Worlding the South: Nineteenth-Century Literary Culture and the Southern Settler Colonies (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781526152886)

This collection brings together for the first time literary studies of British colonies in nineteenth-century Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, South America, Southeast Asia, and the South Pacific Islands. Drawing on hemispheric studies, Indigenous studies, and southern theory to decentre British and other European metropoles, the collection offers a groundbreaking challenge to national paradigms and traditional literary periodisations and canons by prioritising southern cultural networks in multiple regional centres from Cape Town to Dunedin. Worlding the south examines the dialectics of literary worldedness in ways that recognise inequalities of power, textual and material violence, and literary and cultural resistance. The collection revises current literary histories of the 'British world' by arguing for the distinctiveness of settler colonialism in the southern hemisphere, and by incorporating Indigenous, diasporic, and south-south perspectives.

Author: Sarah Comyn
ISBN-10: 1526152886
ISBN-13: 9781526152886
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/06/2021
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.26lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.38d