Archiving Settler Colonialism

Archiving Settler Colonialism: Culture, Race, and Space brings together 15 essays from across the globe, to capture a moment in settler colonial studies that turns increasingly towards new cultural archives for settler colonial research. Essays on hitherto under-examined materials-including postage stamps, musical scores, urban parks, and psychiatric records-reflect on how cultural texts archive moments of settler self-fashioning. Archiving Settler Colonialism also expands settler colonial studies' reach as an international academic discipline, bringing together scholarly research about the British breakaway settler colonies with underanalyzed non-white, non-Anglophone settler societies. The essays together illustrate settler colonial cultures as-for all their similarities-ultimately divergent constructions, locally situated and produced of specific power relations within the messy operations of imperial domination.

Contents;Introduction;List of Figures ;Notes on Contributors ;Acknowledgements; 1.Settler Colonialism and Its Cultural Archives: Ways of Reading Yu-ting Huang and Rebecca Weaver-Hightower PART I. Spaces, Sites, and Scales 2. More than Just Symbols: Re-Surfacing Indigenous Place in the Far North of New Zealand Avril Bell; 3. Arthur H. Adams and Australasian Narratives of the Colonial World Helen Bones; 4. The Settler Urban Landscape of a British Concession- Victoria Park in Tianjin, China Yichi Zhang; PART II. Subordinate Settlers 5. Colony at the Crossroads: The "Translated" Settlement of Texas under Stephen F. Austin Adam Nemmers; 6. German Settler Colonialism in Southern Brazil in German Documentary Films of the 1930s Frederik Schulze; 7. "They Become Some Thing Like the Natives": Liberia, Colonization, and the Rhetoric of Belonging Jeffrey A. Mullins; PART III. Variations in Genres 8. William Henry Bell: Composing and the Art Music Frontier in Cape Town Claudia Jansen van Rensburg; 9.Landscape and Settler Nationalism in the "White Dominions" Damian Skinner and Lize van Robbroeck ; 10.The Visual Rhetoric of Settler Stamps: Rhodesia's Rebellion and the Projection of Sovereignty Josiah Brownell;PART IV. Settler Psyches 11.Murder for White Consumption? Jimmy Governor and the Bush Ballad Meg Foster; 12. Queering Settler Romance: The Reparative Eugenic Landscape in Nora Strange's Kenyan Novels Elizabeth W. Williams; 13. Settler Colonial Thought and Psychiatric Practice in Early 20th-century British Columbia, Canada Kathryn McKay; PART V. Settler Languages 14. Reprinting the Past: Persisting German Settler Narratives in Namibia Today Martin Kalb; 15. The Settler Baroque: Decay and Creolization in Chang Kuei-hsing's Borneo Rainforest Novels Yu-ting Huang; 16."Being Hawaiian" in Pidgin: The Literature of John Dominis Holt and Brandy N lani McDougall Kara Hisatake ; Afterword; 17. The Global Archive of Liminal Settlement
Lorenzo Veracini