1st Edition

Archiving Settler Colonialism Culture, Space and Race

Edited By Yu-ting Huang, Rebecca Weaver-Hightower Copyright 2019
298 Pages
by Routledge

298 Pages
by Routledge

298 Pages
by Routledge

Archiving Settler Colonialism: Culture, Race, and Space brings together 15 essays from across the globe, to capture a moment in settler colonial studies that turns increasingly towards new cultural archives for settler colonial research. Essays on hitherto under-examined materials—including postage stamps, musical scores, urban parks, and psychiatric records—reflect on how cultural texts... Read more

Contents;Introduction;List of Figures ;Notes on Contributors ;Acknowledgements; 1.Settler Colonialism and Its Cultural Archives: Ways of Reading Yu-ting Huang and Rebecca Weaver-Hightower PART I. Spaces, Sites, and Scales 2. More than Just Symbols: Re-Surfacing Indigenous Place in the Far North of New Zealand Avril Bell; 3. Arthur H. Adams and Australasian Narratives of the Colonial World
 Helen Bones; 4. The Settler Urban Landscape of a British Concession— Victoria Park in Tianjin, China Yichi Zhang; PART II. Subordinate Settlers 5. Colony at the Crossroads: The "Translated" Settlement of Texas under Stephen F. Austin
 Adam Nemmers; 6. German Settler Colonialism in Southern Brazil in German Documentary Films of the 1930s Frederik Schulze; 7. "They Become Some Thing Like the Natives": Liberia, Colonization, and the Rhetoric of Belonging
 Jeffrey A. Mullins; PART III. Variations in Genres 8. William Henry Bell: Composing and the Art Music Frontier in Cape Town
 Claudia Jansen van Rensburg; 9.Landscape and Settler Nationalism in the "White Dominions"  Damian Skinner and Lize van Robbroeck
; 10.The Visual Rhetoric of Settler Stamps: Rhodesia's Rebellion and the Projection of Sovereignty
 Josiah Brownell;PART IV. Settler Psyches 11.Murder for White Consumption? Jimmy Governor and the Bush Ballad
 Meg Foster; 12. Queering Settler Romance: The Reparative Eugenic Landscape in Nora Strange’s Kenyan Novels
 Elizabeth W. Williams; 13. Settler Colonial Thought and Psychiatric Practice in Early 20th-century British Columbia, Canada Kathryn McKay; PART V. Settler Languages 14. Reprinting the Past: Persisting German Settler Narratives in Namibia Today 
Martin Kalb; 15. The Settler Baroque: Decay and Creolization in Chang Kuei-hsing's Borneo Rainforest Novels
 Yu-ting Huang; 16.“Being Hawaiian” in Pidgin: The Literature of John Dominis Holt and Brandy Nālani McDougall
 Kara Hisatake ; Afterword; 17. The Global Archive of Liminal Settlement
Lorenzo Veracini



Biography



Yu-ting Huang is Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies at Wesleyan University, USA.



 



Rebecca Weaver-Hightower is Professor of English at North Dakota State University, USA.