ISBN:
9781478019558
,
9781478016915
Language:
English
Pages:
xi, 210 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten
Series Statement:
A theory in forms book
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Boer, Nienke, 1984- Briny South
Keywords:
Forced labor History
;
Labor in literature
;
HISTORY / Asia / South / General
;
HISTORY / Africa / East
;
Afrikanische Geschichte
;
Asian history
;
Asiatische Geschichte
;
African history
;
HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia
;
Indian Ocean Region Biography
;
Sources
;
Netherlands Colonies
;
Netherlands Colonies
;
Great Britain Colonies
;
Great Britain Colonies
;
East Africa
;
Indian sub-continent
;
Indischer Subkontinent
;
Ostafrika
;
Südasien
;
Südostasien
;
Kontraktarbeit
;
Sklaverei
;
Südafrika
Abstract:
"The Briny South examines the legal, autobiographical, and fictional accounts by and about three groups of involuntary or coerced Indian Ocean migrants: enslaved persons transported to the Cape of Good Hope by the Dutch East India Company from their Indian Ocean outposts in South and Southeast Asia and East Africa in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; South Asian indentured laborers sent to the British colony of Natal between 1860 and 1911; and South African war prisoners shipped to camps in British India and Ceylon during the second South African War (1899-1902). Examining court records, ledgers, pamphlets, censors' reports, newsletters, folk songs, as well as South African and South Asian works of fiction and autobiography such as Mohandas K. Gandhi's Autobiography, Ansuyah R. Singh's novel, Behold the Earth Mourns, Thomas Pringle's poetry, and memoirs by Boer war prisoners, Nienke Boer focuses on sentiment, or the depiction of emotion, as a locus to understand how racialized identities are constructed through displacement in the imperial world"--
Abstract:
In The Briny South Nienke Boer examines the legal and literary narratives of enslaved, indentured, and imprisoned individuals crossing the Indian Ocean to analyze the formation of racialized identities in the imperial world. Drawing on court records, ledgers, pamphlets, censors' reports, newsletters, folk songs, memoirs, and South African and South Asian works of fiction and autobiography, Boer theorizes the role of sentiment and the depiction of emotions in the construction of identities of displaced peoples across the Indian Ocean. From Dutch East India Company rule in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to early apartheid South Africa, Boer shows how colonial powers and settler states mediated and manipulated subaltern expressions of emotion as a way to silence racialized subjects and portray them as inarticulately suffering. In this way, sentiment operated in favor of the powerful rather than as an oppositional weapon of the subaltern. By tracing the entwinement of displacement, race, and sentiment, Boer frames the Indian Ocean as a site of subjectification with a long history of transnational connection-and exploitation
Description / Table of Contents:
Enslaved, indentured, interned -- Representing speech in bondage in the court records of the Dutch Cabo de Goede Hoop, 1652-1795 -- Silencing the enslaved : the aesthetics of abolitionism in the British Cape Colony, 1795-1834 -- "Grievances more sentimental than material" : representing indentured labor in Natal, 1860-1915 -- A sentimental education in Boer War imprisonment camps in South Asia, 1899-1902 -- Sentiment and the law in early South African Indian writing, 1893-1960 -- No human footprints.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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