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 colonial societies within the British Empire have made use of the written word and of the power of speech, public performance, and street politics. This book breaks new ground by combining work about marginalized figures from within Britain as well as counterparts in the colonies, ranging from published sources such as indigenous newspapers to ordinary and everyday writings including diaries, letters, petitions, ballads, suicide notes, and more. Each chapter engages with the methodological implications of working with everyday scribblings and asks what these alternate modernities and histories mean for the larger critique of the "imperial archive" that has shaped much of the most interesting writing on empire in the past decade.
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
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A collection remarkable for blending local particularity with transnational reach, Critical Perspectives on Colonialism brings to light the powerful protests of the British Empires marginalised and dispossessed. Zoe Laidlow, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Introduction Fiona Paisley and Kirsty Reid Part I: Writing Back to
Colonial and Imperial Authority
1. Denouncing Americas Destiny: Sarah
Winnemuccas Assault on U.S. Expansion Frederick E. Hoxie
2. Chinese Warnings
and White Mens 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, 191624 Jonathan Hyslop
7.
"Write me. Write me.": Native and Métis Letter-Writing Across the British
Empire, 180070 Cecilia Morgan
8. Littoral Literacy: Sealers, Whalers and the
Entanglements of Empire Tony Ballantyne Part IV: Fragmented Archives
9. Four
Women: Exploring Black Womens Writing in London, 18801920 Caroline Bressey
10. The Power of Words in Nineteenth-Century Prisons: British Colonial
Mauritius, 183587 Clare Anderson Part V: The View from Above
11.
Postcolonial Flyover: Above and Below in Frank Moraess The Importance of
Being Black (1965) Antoinette Burton
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.
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