Writing the South African San

Colonial Ethnographic Discourses

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

Av Lara Atkin

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This book offers an innovative new framework for reading British and settler representations of Indigenous peoples in the nineteenth century. Taking the representation of the Southern African San as its case study, it uses methodologies drawn from critical anthropology, imperial history and literary studies to show the role that literary representations of Indigenous peoples played in popularising the hierarchical view of racial difference. The study identifies an ‘ethnographic poetics’ in which the claims of scientific discourse blend with a consciously literary preference for metaphor and analogy. This created a set of mobile figures that could be disseminated to different reading publics in both Britain and the colonies through a variety of literary genres and textual media. It advances research on race and imperial history by focusing on the importance of literature - from newspapers and periodicals to popular novels - in shaping discourses of national and racialbelonging in Britain and the Cape Colony.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2022-11-29
Mått148 x 210 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SeriePalgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
Antal sidor212
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9783030862282

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Kolonialism och imperialism inom Historia och arkeologi
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Antropologi inom Samhalle och politik

Lara Atkin is Lecturer in Victorian Literature and a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Indigenous and Settler Colonial Studies at the University of Kent, UK. After graduating with a PhD in English Literature from Queen Mary University of London in 2017, she worked as an ERC-funded postdoctoral resarch fellow on the project ‘SouthHem’ based in the School of English, Drama and Film at University College Dublin. She is co-author of Early Public Libraries and Colonial Citizenship in the British Southern Hemisphere (Palgrave, 2019, with Sarah Comyn et al).

Chapter 1: Literature and Ethnology: Towards a Theory of “Ethnographic Poetics”.- Chapter 2: Representing the Khoisan c. 1600–1800.- Chapter 3: Better to Be Naked and Free than to Wear Clothes and Be Oppressed: Indigenous Uses of Humanitarian Discourse.- Chapter 4: “The South African ‘Children of the Mist’”: The Bushman, the Highlander, and the Making of Colonial Identity in Thomas Pringle’s South African Poetry.- Chapter 5: The “Bushboy” in Children’s Literature: Missionary Ethnography and Imperial Adventure Fiction.- Chapter 6: Encountering Southern Africa: The Display of Khoisan Peoples in London.- Chapter 7: Conclusion: The Colonial Encounter and Identity Formation.