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.
| ISBN: | 9780415537384 |
| Publication date: | 23rd December 2013 |
| Author: | Fiona Griffith University, Australia Paisley |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 258 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Studies in Cultural History |
| Genres: |
Colonialism and imperialism Social and cultural history History: theory and methods European history Historiography |
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.
Critical Perspectives on Colonialism features in the following genres: Colonialism and imperialism, Social and cultural history, History: theory and methods, European history, Historiography
Critical Perspectives on Colonialism is available in Hardback
Critical Perspectives on Colonialism was written by Fiona Griffith University, Australia Paisley and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd
Critical Perspectives on Colonialism has 258 pages
Yes it is part of Routledge Studies in Cultural History series
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