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This collection brings much-needed focus to the vibrancy and vitality of minority and marginal writing about empire, and to their implications as expressions of embodied contact between imperial power and those negotiating its consequences from "below." The chapters explore how less powerful and less privileged actors in metropolitan and colonia
List of contents
Introduction
Fiona Paisley and Kirsty Reid Part I: Writing Back to Colonial and Imperial Authority 1. Denouncing America's Destiny: Sarah Winnemucca's Assault on U.S. Expansion
Frederick E. Hoxie 2. Chinese Warnings and White Men's Prophecies
Marilyn Lake 3. Orality and Literacy on the New York Frontier: Remembering Joseph Brant
Elizabeth Elbourne Part II: Speech Acts 4. History Lessons in Hyde Park: Embodying the Australian Frontier in Interwar London
Fiona Paisley 5. Patriotic Complaints: Sailors Performing Petition in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain
Isaac Land Part III: Mobilities 6. Zulu Sailors in the Steamship Era: The African Modern in the World Voyage Narratives of Fulunge Mpofu and George Magodini, 1916-24
Jonathan Hyslop 7. "Write me. Write me.": Native and Métis Letter-Writing Across the British Empire, 1800-70
Cecilia Morgan 8. Littoral Literacy: Sealers, Whalers and the Entanglements of Empire
Tony Ballantyne Part IV: Fragmented Archives 9. Four Women: Exploring Black Women's Writing in London, 1880-1920
Caroline Bressey 10. The Power of Words in Nineteenth-Century Prisons: British Colonial Mauritius, 1835-87
Clare Anderson Part V: The View from Above 11. Postcolonial Flyover: Above and Below in Frank Moraes's
The Importance of Being Black (1965)
Antoinette Burton
About the author
Fiona Paisley is a cultural historian at Griffith University, Brisbane, and a member of the Australian Historical Association.
Kirsty Reid is a senior researcher in the Centre for History at the University of the Highlands and Islands, Scotland and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Summary
This collection brings much-needed focus to the vibrancy and vitality of minority and marginal writing about empire, and to their implications as expressions of embodied contact between imperial power and those negotiating its consequences from "below." The chapters explore how less powerful and less privileged actors in metropolitan and colonia
