"This book asks how life writing from the southern hemisphere impacts how we understand and read life narratives and perceive our planet. Redressing global alignments that champion the north, it critical examination of life stories provide a countervailing and alternative perspective that unsettles, challenges and enriches the imaginative norms that have informed life writing studies so far. Looking at writing from South America, southern Africa, Australia and New Zealand and as far down as Antarctica, this collection brings together writers and scholars in the oceanic humanities,…mehr
"This book asks how life writing from the southern hemisphere impacts how we understand and read life narratives and perceive our planet. Redressing global alignments that champion the north, it critical examination of life stories provide a countervailing and alternative perspective that unsettles, challenges and enriches the imaginative norms that have informed life writing studies so far. Looking at writing from South America, southern Africa, Australia and New Zealand and as far down as Antarctica, this collection brings together writers and scholars in the oceanic humanities, postcolonial, Global South and polar studies, and presents works on human, animal and plant life captured in words, music, performance, visual arts and photography"-- Provided by publisher.
Elleke Boehmer is Professor of World Literature in English at the University of Oxford, UK, and Governing Body Fellow at Wolfson College. Internationally renowned for her research in post-colonial theory and the literature of empire, Professor Boehmer currently works on questions of migration, identity, and resistance in both colonial and post-colonial literature (sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia). She has published over eighteen books, including four novels; her best-selling biography of Nelson Mandela has been translated into Arabic, Portuguese, and Thai. She obtained her doctorate from Oxford University, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar. Katherine Collins is a poet and Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, UK. Her research spans the creative and critical practices involved in the writing of marginalised lives, such as the politics and poetics of life writing, testimonial cultures and witnessing, and autobiographies of resistance.
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List of Contributors I.Introduction Elleke Boehmer and Katherine Collins, University of Oxford II.Reading the south 1.Life-writing and imagining across southern space Elleke Boehmer, University of Oxford 2.Prosthetics, Souvenirs, and Settlement: South-South Connections in Janet Frame's and Doris Lessing's Life Writing Emma Parker, University of Bristol 3.Antarctic Futures: Francisco Coloane and Literary Nationalism Elizabeth Chant, University of Warwick 4.Cross-cultural Life-Writing: Juxtaposing Adivasi/Tribal Indian and Indigenous Australian Texts Priyanka Shivadas, University of Melbourne III.Imagining spaces and spatiality 5.Unknowing a southern life: writing around the abyss Katherine Collins, University of Oxford 6.Minority Life in Nigeria's South-South: Ken Wiwa's In the Shadow of a Saint Obari Gomba University of Port Harcourt 7.Southwards from the Northeast Archie Davies, Queen Mary University of London 8.The South as a continuous space Pablo Wainschenker, University of Canterbury/Te Whare Wananga o Waitaha 9.J.M. Coetzee's Hispanic South Cristóbal Pérez Barra, University of Oxford IV.Reading and writing in southern waters 10.Tsunami, Tornado, Tide: Life and Writing of the Oceanic South in Selected Nonfiction by Amitav Ghosh Charne Lavery, University of Pretoria 11.The representation of water-spirits in southern African Literature Confidence Joseph, University of the Witwatersrand 12.All water has a perfect memory: In search of Dambudzo Marechera's stream Tinashe Mushakavanhu, University of Oxford V.Sounds, images and resonances in the Far South 13.The plankton net at the door: Scott's hut and the poetics of 'intimate immensity' Joanna Price, Liverpool John Moores University 14.The Musical Lives of Mawson's Men Carolyn Philpott, University of Tasmania 15.Signals from the South: Decoding the life of an Antarctic radio operator Elizabeth Leane, University of Tasmania 16.Remote imag(in)ing the Antarctic: life-writing and the resonant page Elizabeth Lewis Williams, University of East Anglia VI.Embodying the south 17.The Fugitive Lives of David Stuurman Sarah Comyn and Porscha Fermanis, University College Dublin 18.Recovering a biography of a Southern city, Bulawayo Isaac Ndlovu, University of Pretoria 19.From the Far Bank: Two-Body Problem in the South Louis Rogers 20.MOGAU-Grace Khutso Mabokela, University of Pretoria Index
List of Contributors I.Introduction Elleke Boehmer and Katherine Collins, University of Oxford II.Reading the south 1.Life-writing and imagining across southern space Elleke Boehmer, University of Oxford 2.Prosthetics, Souvenirs, and Settlement: South-South Connections in Janet Frame's and Doris Lessing's Life Writing Emma Parker, University of Bristol 3.Antarctic Futures: Francisco Coloane and Literary Nationalism Elizabeth Chant, University of Warwick 4.Cross-cultural Life-Writing: Juxtaposing Adivasi/Tribal Indian and Indigenous Australian Texts Priyanka Shivadas, University of Melbourne III.Imagining spaces and spatiality 5.Unknowing a southern life: writing around the abyss Katherine Collins, University of Oxford 6.Minority Life in Nigeria's South-South: Ken Wiwa's In the Shadow of a Saint Obari Gomba University of Port Harcourt 7.Southwards from the Northeast Archie Davies, Queen Mary University of London 8.The South as a continuous space Pablo Wainschenker, University of Canterbury/Te Whare Wananga o Waitaha 9.J.M. Coetzee's Hispanic South Cristóbal Pérez Barra, University of Oxford IV.Reading and writing in southern waters 10.Tsunami, Tornado, Tide: Life and Writing of the Oceanic South in Selected Nonfiction by Amitav Ghosh Charne Lavery, University of Pretoria 11.The representation of water-spirits in southern African Literature Confidence Joseph, University of the Witwatersrand 12.All water has a perfect memory: In search of Dambudzo Marechera's stream Tinashe Mushakavanhu, University of Oxford V.Sounds, images and resonances in the Far South 13.The plankton net at the door: Scott's hut and the poetics of 'intimate immensity' Joanna Price, Liverpool John Moores University 14.The Musical Lives of Mawson's Men Carolyn Philpott, University of Tasmania 15.Signals from the South: Decoding the life of an Antarctic radio operator Elizabeth Leane, University of Tasmania 16.Remote imag(in)ing the Antarctic: life-writing and the resonant page Elizabeth Lewis Williams, University of East Anglia VI.Embodying the south 17.The Fugitive Lives of David Stuurman Sarah Comyn and Porscha Fermanis, University College Dublin 18.Recovering a biography of a Southern city, Bulawayo Isaac Ndlovu, University of Pretoria 19.From the Far Bank: Two-Body Problem in the South Louis Rogers 20.MOGAU-Grace Khutso Mabokela, University of Pretoria Index
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