Worlding the South by Sarah Comyn

Worlding the South by Sarah Comyn

This collection brings together for the first time literary studies of British colonies in nineteenth-century Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, South America, Southeast Asia, and the South Pacific Islands. Drawing on hemispheric studies, Indigenous studies, and southern theory to decentre British and other European metropoles, the collection offers a groundbreaking challenge to national paradigms and traditional literary periodisations and canons by prioritising southern cultural networks in multiple regional centres from Cape Town to Dunedin. Worlding the south examines the dialectics of literary worldedness in ways that recognise inequalities of power, textual and material violence, and literary and cultural resistance. The collection revises current literary histories of the ‘British world’ by arguing for the distinctiveness of settler colonialism in the southern hemisphere, and by incorporating Indigenous, diasporic, and south-south perspectives.

An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.

'..exceptionally rich and critically wide-ranging...'
Romance, Revolution and Reform

Sarah Comyn is an Assistant Professor and Ad Astra Fellow at University College Dublin

Porscha Fermanis is Professor of Romantic Literature at University College Dublin