Worlding the South: Nineteenth-Century Literary Culture and the Southern Settler Colonies

This collection of literary studies focuses on British colonies in nineteenth-century Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, South America, Southeast Asia, and the South Pacific Islands, challenging national paradigms and periodizations by prioritizing southern cultural networks and incorporating Indigenous, diasporic, and south-south perspectives.

\n Format: Hardback
\n Length: 448 pages
\n Publication date: 06 July 2021
\n Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This groundbreaking 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.

The volume opens with an introductory essay by the editors that situates the collection within the broader context of recent scholarship on the global south. The essay highlights the importance of studying the intersections of race, gender, and class in the production and reception of literature, and argues that the collection offers a valuable contribution to this field.

The first section of the collection focuses on the literary representations of settler colonialism in Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. Contributors explore the ways in which colonialism shaped the cultural landscape, the experiences of Indigenous peoples, and the development of national identities. The section also examines the role of literature in shaping public discourse and political activism.

The second section of the collection explores the literary representations of settler colonialism in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific Islands. Contributors examine the ways in which colonialism shaped the cultural landscape, the experiences of Indigenous peoples, and the development of national identities. The section also explores the role of literature in shaping public discourse and political activism.

The third section of the collection focuses on the literary representations of settler colonialism in South America. Contributors explore the ways in which colonialism shaped the cultural landscape, the experiences of Indigenous peoples, and the development of national identities. The section also examines the role of literature in shaping public discourse and political activism.

The final section of the collection explores the literary representations of settler colonialism in the Caribbean. Contributors examine the ways in which colonialism shaped the cultural landscape, the experiences of Indigenous peoples, and the development of national identities. The section also examines the role of literature in shaping public discourse and political activism.

Overall, this collection offers a rich and nuanced understanding of the literary representations of settler colonialism in the southern hemisphere. The editors have done an excellent job in bringing together a diverse range of scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds, and the contributions are insightful and thought-provoking. This collection will be of great interest to scholars and students of literature, history, and cultural studies.

\n Weight: 1006g\n
Dimension: 163 x 242 x 41 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781526152886\n \n