Format:
xi, 212 Seiten
,
1 Illustration
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23 cm
ISBN:
9783030862251
,
3030862259
,
9783030862282
Series Statement:
Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture
Content:
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 racial belonging in Britain and the Cape Colony
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-207) and index
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1 Literature and Ethnology: Towards a Theory of "Ethnographic Poetics" 2 Representing the Khoisan c. 1600-18003 Better to Be Naked and Free than to Wear Clothes and Be Oppressed: Indigenous Uses of Humanitarian Discourse4 "The South African 'Children of the Mist'": The Bushman, the Highlander, and the Making of Colonial Identity inThomas Pringle's South African Poetry5 The "Bushboy" in Children's Literature: Missionary Ethnography and Imperial Adventure Fiction6 Encountering Southern Africa: The Display of Khoisan Peoples in London7 Conclusion: The Colonial Encounter and Identity Formation
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783030862268
Language:
English
Keywords:
Südafrika
;
Siedler
;
Englisch
;
Literatur
;
Khoisan
;
Indigenes Volk
;
Geschichte
