Research Catalog

Title

Colonial Literature and the Native Author : Indigeneity and Empire / Jane Stafford.

Author

Stafford, Jane, 1951-

Publication

[Place of publication not identified ] : Palgrave Macmillan 2016.

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Description

xii, 254 pages; 22 cm

Summary

This book is the first study of writers who are both Victorian and indigenous, who have been educated in and write in terms of Victorian literary conventions, but whose indigenous affiliation is part of their literary personae and subject matter. What happens when the colonised, indigenous, or 'native' subject learns to write in the literary language of empire? If the romanticised subject of colonial literature becomes the author, is a new kind of writing produced, or does the native author conform to the models of the coloniser? By investigating the ways that nineteenth-century concerns are adopted, accommodated, rewritten, challenged, re-inscribed, confronted, or assimilated in the work of these authors, this study presents a novel examination of the nature of colonial literary production and indigenous authorship, as well as suggesting to the discipline of colonial and postcolonial studies a perhaps unsettling perspective with which to look at the larger patterns of Victorian cultural and literary formation.

Subject

• Literature and society > History > 19th century
• Indigenous authors
• Great Britain > Colonies > History and criticism. > Literary collections

Bibliography (note)

• Includes index and bibliographical references

Contents

1. Introduction: 'I adopt the language of the poet' -- 2. Littleness, Frivolity, and Vedic Simplicity: Toru Dutt, Sarojini Naidu, and Mr Gosse -- 3. 'Constant reading after office hours': Sol Plaatje and Literary Belonging -- 4. 'The genuine stamp of truth and nature': voicing The History of Mary Prince -- 5. 'Culture's artificial note': E. Pauline Johnson, Tekahionwake, and her Audiences -- 6. 'Pressed down by the great words of others': Wiremu Te Rangikaheke and Apirana Ngata -- 7. Conclusion: Secret Fountains and Authentic Utterance -- Bibliography -- Index.-.

Call Number

JFD 17-1373

ISBN

• 9783319387666
• 3319387669

OCLC

946908067

Author

Stafford, Jane, 1951- author.

Title

Colonial Literature and the Native Author : Indigeneity and Empire / Jane Stafford.

Publisher

[Place of publication not identified ] : Palgrave Macmillan 2016.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes index and bibliographical references

Research Call Number

JFD 17-1373