Worlding the South : : nineteenth-century literary culture and the southern settler colonies /

Worlding the South : : nineteenth-century literary culture and the southern settler colonies / / [edited by] Sarah Comyn, Porscha Fermanis.

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 Britis...

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Superior document:Interventions: rethinking the nineteenth century
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Fermanis, Porscha
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Comyn, Sarah
Fermanis, Porscha
Place / Publishing House:Manchester, UK : : Manchester University Press,, 2021.
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Interventions: rethinking the nineteenth century (Series).
Physical Description:1 online resource (464 pages) :; digital file(s).
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Southern worlds, globes, and spheres / Sarah Comyn and Porscha Fermanis World/Globe
  • 1. Making, mapping, and unmaking worlds: globes, panoramas, fictions, and oceans / Peter Otto
  • 2. Southern doubles: Antipodean life as a comparative exercise / Sarah Comyn
  • 3. Lag fever, flash men, and late fashionable worlds / Clara Tuite
  • 4. Spatial synchronicities: settler emigration, the voyage out, and shipboard literary production / Fariha Shaikh
  • 5. Augustus Earle's pedestrian tour in New Zealand: or, get off the beach / Ingrid Horrocks
  • 6. Australia to Paraguay: race, class, and poetry in a South American colony - Jason Rudy, Aaron Bartlett, Lindy O'Neil, and Justin Thompson II Acculturation/Transculturation
  • 7. 'The renowned Crusoe in the native costume of our adopted country': reading Robinson Crusoe in colonial New Zealand / Jane Stafford
  • 8. The transnational kangaroo hunt / Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver
  • 9. 'Then came the high unpromising forests, and miles of loneliness': Louisa Atkinson's recasting of the Australian landscape / Grace Moore
  • 10. Mapping the way forward: Thomas Baines on expedition to the coronation of Cetshwayo kaMpande, Zululand, 1873 / Lindy Stiebel
  • 11. 'Wild, desert and lawless countries': William Burchell's Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa / Matthew Shum
  • 12. Short stories of the southern seas: the island as collective in the works of Louis Becke / Jennifer Fuller
  • III Indigenous/Diasporic
  • 13. 'That's white fellow's talk you know, missis': wordlists, songs, and knowledge production on the colonial Australian frontier / Anna Johnston
  • 14. Kiro's thoughts about England: an unexpected text in an unexpected place / Michelle Elleray
  • 15. Mokena and Macaulay: cultural geographies of poetry in colonial Aotearoa / Nikki Hessell
  • 16. Vigilance: petitions, politics, and the African Christian converts of the nineteenth century / Hlonipha Mokoena
  • 17. Reading indigeneity in nineteenth-century British Guiana / Manu Samriti Chander
  • 18. 'Some Genuine Chinese Authors': literary appreciation, comparatism, and universalism in the Straits Chinese Magazine / Porscha Fermanis
  • The south in the world / Elleke Boehmer.

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