Critical Perspectives on Colonialism Writing the Empire from Below 1st Edition by Fiona Paisley, Kirsty Reid 113627460X 9781136274602

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ISBN 10: 113627460X 

ISBN 13: 9781136274602

Author: Fiona Paisley, Kirsty Reid

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.

Table of contents:

Part I Writing Back to Colonial and Imperial Authority

1 Denouncing America’s Destiny Sarah Winnemucca’s Assault on US Expansion

2 Chinese Warnings and White Men’s Prophecies

3 Orality and Literacy on the New York Frontier Remembering Joseph Brant

Part II Speech Acts

4 History Lessons in Hyde Park Embodying the Australian Frontier in Interwar London

5 Patriotic Complaints Sailors Performing Petition in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain

Part III Mobilities

6 Zulu Sailors in the Steamship Era The African Modern in the World Voyage Narratives of Fulunge Mpofu and George Magodini, 1916–1924

7 ‘Write me. Write me.’ Native and Métis Letter-Writing Across the British Empire, 1800–1870

8 Littoral Literacy Sealers, Whalers, and the Entanglements of Empire

Part IV Fragmented Archives

9 Four Women Exploring Black Women’s Writing in London, 1880–1920

10 The Power of Words in Nineteenth-Century Prisons British Colonial Mauritius, 1835–1887

Part V The View from Above

11 Postcolonial Flyover Above and Below in Frank Moraes’s The Importance of Being Black (1965)

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