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  1. Writing the South African San
    colonial ethnographic discourses
    Author: Atkin, Lara
    Published: [2021]; © 2021
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland

    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... more

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    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Unter den Linden
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    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

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9783030862251; 3030862259; 9783030862282
    Series: Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture
    Subjects: English literature; Indigenous peoples in literature; San (African people); English literature; Indigenous peoples in literature; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Colonialism & imperialism; HISTORY / General; Kolonialismus und Imperialismus; LIT024040; LITERARY CRITICISM / African; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900; Literaturwissenschaft: 1800 bis 1900; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie
    Scope: xi, 212 Seiten, 1 Illustration, 23 cm
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-207) and index

    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
  2. Writing the South African San
    colonial ethnographic discourses
    Author: Atkin, Lara
    Published: [2021]; © 2021
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland

    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... more

    Location:
    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Potsdamer Straße
    Signature:
    10 A 139403
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    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

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    Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg
    Signature:
    GE 2023/761
    Inter-library loan:
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

     

    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

     
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    Content information
    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9783030862251; 3030862259; 9783030862282
    Series: Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture
    Subjects: English literature; Indigenous peoples in literature; San (African people); English literature; Indigenous peoples in literature; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Colonialism & imperialism; HISTORY / General; Kolonialismus und Imperialismus; LIT024040; LITERARY CRITICISM / African; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900; Literaturwissenschaft: 1800 bis 1900; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie
    Scope: xi, 212 Seiten, 1 Illustration, 23 cm
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-207) and index

    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