Nienke Boer

The Briny South

Displacement and Sentiment in the Indian Ocean World

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Produktbeschreibung

Nienke Boer examines the legal and literary narratives of enslaved, indentured, and imprisoned individuals crossing the Indian Ocean to show how colonial powersâ mediation of sentiment and emotion was central to the racialization of these marginalized peoples.

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Produktdetails

• Theory in Forms
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 160mm x 240mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 450g
• ISBN-13: 9781478016915
• ISBN-10: 1478016914
• Artikelnr.: 64268066

Autorenporträt

Nienke Boer is Lecturer in World Literatures in English at the University of Sydney.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. Enslaved, Indentured, Interned  1
1. Representing Speech in Bondage in the Court Records of the Dutch Cabo de
Goede Hoop, 1652–1795  17
2. Silencing the Enslaved: The Aesthetics of Abolitionism in the British
Cape Colony, 1795–1834  48
3. “Grievances More Sentimental than Material”: Representing Indentured
Labor in Natal, 1860–1915  82
4. A Sentimental Education in Boer War Imprisonment Camps in South Asia,
1899–1902  109
5. Sentiment and the Law in Early South African Indian Writing, 1893–1960 
132
Coda. No Human Footprints  154
Notes  161
Bibliography  187
Index  205