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Worlding the South

Nineteenth-Century Literary Culture and the Southern Settler Colonies

Porscha Fermanis editor Sarah Comyn editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Manchester University Press

Published:6th Jul '21

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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.

An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.

'...exceptionally rich and critically wide-ranging...'
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ISBN: 9781526152886

Dimensions: 234mm x 156mm x 35mm

Weight: 1030g

448 pages