Overview
- Examines a wide range of contexts, including South Africa, Australia, Canada and the US
- Refers to situations from the nineteenth century to the present
- Makes a timely intervention into world and postcolonial studies
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“Frontier Fictions is a timely book: accessing an archive that was never previously the subject of comparative and transnational scrutiny, it focuses on moments of ambivalence in Anglophone settler literatures. It compellingly highlights a number of recurring tropes and a suite of defensive mechanisms that accompany a particular psychological state: that of the settler. Frontier Fictions demonstrates that first generation settlers globally used the novel as a crucial site for the elaboration and displacement of guilt. Focusing on settler collective and personal guilt and on the multiple ways in which it is managed, this book contributes significantly to the analysis of global settlement processes.” (Lorenzo Veracini, Associate Professor in History at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia)
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Book Title: Frontier Fictions
Book Subtitle: Settler Sagas and Postcolonial Guilt
Authors: Rebecca Weaver-Hightower
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00422-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-00421-7Published: 12 December 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40427-7Published: 18 February 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-00422-4Published: 28 November 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XL, 247
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: Postcolonial/World Literature, North American Literature, Comparative Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Contemporary Literature