Much of the intellectual effort in the surging field of settler colonial studies since the late 1990s has been to theorize the structural distinction between colonialism and settler colonialism. While the field has always been interdisciplinary, its emphasis on settler colonialism as a political structure has largely privileged political history and has tended to ignore local variants. This books makes a timely and important scholarly contribution in focusing on cultural expressions of settler colonialism across geographical, political, and cultural borders.

Yu-ting Huang is Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies at Wesleyan University, USA.

Rebecca Weaver-Hightower is Professor of English at North Dakota State University, USA.

Contents;Introduction;List of Figures ;Notes on Contributors ;Acknowledgements; 1.Settler Colonialism and Its Cultural Archives: Ways of Reading Yu-ting Huang and Rebecca Weaver-Hightower PART I. Spaces, Sites, and Scales 2. More than Just Symbols: Re-Surfacing Indigenous Place in the Far North of New Zealand Avril Bell; 3. Arthur H. Adams and Australasian Narratives of the Colonial World Helen Bones; 4. The Settler Urban Landscape of a British Concession- Victoria Park in Tianjin, China Yichi Zhang; PART II. Subordinate Settlers 5. Colony at the Crossroads: The "Translated" Settlement of Texas under Stephen F. Austin Adam Nemmers; 6. German Settler Colonialism in Southern Brazil in German Documentary Films of the 1930s Frederik Schulze; 7. "They Become Some Thing Like the Natives": Liberia, Colonization, and the Rhetoric of Belonging Jeffrey A. Mullins; PART III. Variations in Genres 8. William Henry Bell: Composing and the Art Music Frontier in Cape Town Claudia Jansen van Rensburg; 9.Landscape and Settler Nationalism in the "White Dominions" Damian Skinner and Lize van Robbroeck ; 10.The Visual Rhetoric of Settler Stamps: Rhodesia's Rebellion and the Projection of Sovereignty Josiah Brownell;PART IV. Settler Psyches 11.Murder for White Consumption? Jimmy Governor and the Bush Ballad Meg Foster; 12. Queering Settler Romance: The Reparative Eugenic Landscape in Nora Strange's Kenyan Novels Elizabeth W. Williams; 13. Settler Colonial Thought and Psychiatric Practice in Early 20th-century British Columbia, Canada Kathryn McKay; PART V. Settler Languages 14. Reprinting the Past: Persisting German Settler Narratives in Namibia Today Martin Kalb; 15. The Settler Baroque: Decay and Creolization in Chang Kuei-hsing's Borneo Rainforest Novels Yu-ting Huang; 16."Being Hawaiian" in Pidgin: The Literature of John Dominis Holt and Brandy Nalani McDougall Kara Hisatake ; Afterword; 17. The Global Archive of Liminal Settlement
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