Life Writing and the Southern Hemisphere - Texts, Spaces, Resonances

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 impact 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''.>

Product details

• Authors: Elleke Boehmer, Katherine Collins
• Assisted by: Elleke Boehmer (Editor), Katherine Collins (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.11.2024
• EAN: 9781350360754
• ISBN: 978-1-350-36075-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 238 mm x 22 mm
• Series: New Directions in Life Narrative
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; South America, Biography: general, Africa, Antarctica, Memoirs, LITERARY CRITICISM / African, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / African, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, LITERARY CRITICISM / Australian & Oceanian, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Australasia, Australasia, Oceania, Pacific Islands, Atlantic Islands, Literary studies: postcolonial literature, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Hispanic & Latino