| Writing the South African San: Colonial Ethnographic Discourses 2021 Edition Contributor(s): Atkin, Lara (Author) |
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ISBN: 3030862259 ISBN-13: 9783030862251 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover Published: November 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century - Literary Criticism | African - History |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (0.99 lbs) 212 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 aesthetics' in which the claims of scientific discourse blend with a consciously literary preference for metaphor analogy. This created a set of mobile tropes 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. |