Critical Perspectives on Colonialism

Writing the Empire from Below
Herausgeber: Paisley, Fiona; Reid, Kirsty

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection brings much-needed focus to the vibrancy and vitality of minority and marginal writing about empire, and to their implications as expressions of embodied contact between imperial power and those negotiating its consequences from "below." The chapters explore how less powerful and less privileged actors in metropolitan and colonial societies within the British Empire have made use of the written word and of the power of speech, public performance, and street politics. This book breaks new ground by combining work about marginalized figures from within Britain as well as counterparts in the colonies, ranging from published sources such as indigenous newspapers to ordinary and everyday writings including diaries, letters, petitions, ballads, suicide notes, and more. Each chapter engages with the methodological implications of working with everyday scribblings and asks what these alternate modernities and histories mean for the larger critique of the "imperial archive" that has shaped much of the most interesting writing on empire in the past decade.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 532g
• ISBN-13: 9780415537384
• ISBN-10: 041553738X
• Artikelnr.: 35454796

Autorenporträt

Fiona Paisley is a cultural historian at Griffith University, Brisbane, and a member of the Australian Historical Association. Kirsty Reid is a senior researcher in the Centre for History at the University of the Highlands and Islands, Scotland and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Fiona Paisley and Kirsty Reid Part I: Writing Back to Colonial
and Imperial Authority 1. Denouncing America's Destiny: Sarah Winnemucca's
Assault on U.S. Expansion Frederick E. Hoxie 2. Chinese Warnings and White
Men's Prophecies Marilyn Lake 3. Orality and Literacy on the New York
Frontier: Remembering Joseph Brant Elizabeth Elbourne Part II: Speech Acts
4. History Lessons in Hyde Park: Embodying the Australian Frontier in
Interwar London Fiona Paisley 5. Patriotic Complaints: Sailors Performing
Petition in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain Isaac Land Part III:
Mobilities 6. Zulu Sailors in the Steamship Era: The African Modern in the
World Voyage Narratives of Fulunge Mpofu and George Magodini, 1916-24
Jonathan Hyslop 7. "Write me. Write me.": Native and Métis Letter-Writing
Across the British Empire, 1800-70 Cecilia Morgan 8. Littoral Literacy:
Sealers, Whalers and the Entanglements of Empire Tony Ballantyne Part IV:
Fragmented Archives 9. Four Women: Exploring Black Women's Writing in
London, 1880-1920 Caroline Bressey 10. The Power of Words in
Nineteenth-Century Prisons: British Colonial Mauritius, 1835-87 Clare
Anderson Part V: The View from Above 11. Postcolonial Flyover: Above and
Below in Frank Moraes's The Importance of Being Black (1965) Antoinette
Burton