Book
Life writing and the Southern Hemisphere: texts, spaces, resonances
- Abstract:
-
Exploring lives lived, written and narrated in and from the Global South, the far South and the ultimate South, Antarctica, this book asks how life writing from southerly compass points impacts both how we understand and read life narratives, and ultimately how we perceive our planet. Southern geographies, histories and lives have often been overlooked and defined by northern perspectives; Life Writing and the Southern Hemisphere redresses this North/South alignment in its critical examination of life stories, memoirs, biographies and autobiographies from the southern hemisphere, providing a countervailing and alternative perspective that will unsettle, challenge and enrich the imaginative norms that inform life writing studies.
From Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia in South America, through southern Africa, to Australia and New Zealand and as far down as Antarctica, this collection brings together writers and scholars in the oceanic humanities, postcolonial, Global South and polar studies, and presents works on human, animal and plant life captured in words, music, performance, visual arts and photography. Interdisciplinary and vast in its comparative range, Life Writing and the Southern Hemisphere convenes a diversity of perspectives and positions that demonstrate that the south has rich internal knowledge sources of its own, allowing us to better conceptualize the planet 'from below'.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
Actions
Access Document
- Files:
-
-
(Preview, Version of record, pdf, 471.0KB, Terms of use)
-
- Publisher copy:
- 10.5040/9781350360792
Authors
Contributors
+ Boehmer, E
- Institution:
- University of Oxford
- Division:
- HUMS
- Department:
- English Faculty
- Role:
- Editor
- ORCID:
- 0000-0003-0909-4165
+ Collins, K
- Institution:
- University of Oxford
- Division:
- HUMS
- Department:
- English Faculty
- Oxford college:
- Wolfson College
- Role:
- Editor
- ORCID:
- 0000-0001-5333-7377
+ Leverhulme Trust
More from this funder
- Funder identifier:
- https://ror.org/012mzw131
- Grant:
- ECF-2018-210
- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury Academic
- Series:
- New Directions in Life Narrative
- Place of publication:
- London
- Publication date:
- 2024-10-28
- Edition:
- 1
- DOI:
- EISBN:
- 9781350360792
- ISBN-10:
- 1350360805
- ISBN-13:
- 9781350360754
- Language:
-
English
- Pubs id:
-
2023415
- Local pid:
-
pubs:2023415
- Deposit date:
-
2024-08-27
Terms of use
- Copyright holder:
- Boehmer et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2024
- Rights statement:
- © Elleke Boehmer, Katherine Collins and Contributors, 2024.
- Notes:
- The publisher's version of the introduction is made available here in accordance with rights and permissions. The complete book is available online from Bloomsbury Academic at: https://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350360792
If you are the owner of this record, you can report an update to it here: Report update to this record