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The Briny South

By Nienke Boer

The Briny South

By Nienke Boer

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
224
Release Date:
2023-02-24
Publication Date:
2023-02-24
Publisher:
Duke University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1478019557
ISBN13:
9781478019558
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
332 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
12 cm
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