Lara Atkin: Writing the South African San

Cover: 9783030862282 | Writing the South African San | Colonial Ethnographic Discourses | xi

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Beschreibung

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.

Über den Autor

¿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).

Zusammenfassung

First study to explore in depth the role of literature in popularising race science in the colonies

Combines methodologies drawn from critical anthropology, imperial history and literary studies

Analyses the representation of Indigenous peoples across texts including newspapers, periodicals and popular novels

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2022
Genre:	Allgemeine Lexika , Geisteswissenschaften , Kunst , Musik
Rubrik:	Literaturwissenschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	xi 212 S.
ISBN-13:	9783030862282
ISBN-10:	3030862283
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Atkin, Lara
Auflage:	1st edition 2021
Hersteller:	Springer Nature Switzerland Springer International Publishing
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	210 x 148 x 13 mm
Von/Mit:	Lara Atkin
Erscheinungsdatum:	29.11.2022
Gewicht:	0,296 kg

Artikel-ID: 125797064