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...Hamish Dalley Abstract This article explores the influence of settler colonialism on the emergence and development of literary modernism in the mid‐twentieth century. It focuses on Algeria‐born Albert Camus's first novel, L’étranger (1942), questioning the critical tendency to read this work solely...

...Hamish Dalley Abstract Dominant theorizations of settler colonialism identify it as a social form characterized by a problem with historical narration: because the existence of settler communities depends on the dispossession of indigenous peoples, settlers find themselves trapped by the need both...

...Hamish Dalley Philip Steer , Settler Colonialism in Victorian Literature: Economics and Political Identity in the Networks of Empire ( Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 2020 ), pp. 227 , hardcover, $99.99 . Copyright © 2021 by Novel, Inc. 2021 Of all the nineteenth-century books...

...: Torture and Liberalism in Imperial Britain deftly aligns four major areas of inquiry—torture, literary realism, liberalism, and imperialism—through original historical research, theoretical insight, and new attention to popular genres of religious and settler-colonial fiction, as well as canonical novels...

... categorizations is especially illuminating. She explains that the term "was strictly a colonial, not a racial label" (9), designating "the offspring of both settlers and slaves in the slave-and-settler colonies"-all native-born inhabitants who were nevertheless not natives because they were the hldren...

.... CHAKRAVORTY ANXIETIES OF BOREDOM 491 The second chapter delves evocatively into Mansfield’s ambivalence about her inclusion in Bloomsbury circles and her equally troubled settler-colonial nostalgia for life in New Zealand. Whereas for Joyce banality signals Ireland’s subaltern...

...–2008: Market Fictions critiques the identity-focused approach that since the 1980s has dominated literary studies in postcolonial and settler-colonial contexts. Challenging models that disaggregate national literary production by ethnicity (separating Māori and Pakeha/settler authors into different...

... pondering this matter with Bernard's assertion that Oz's commitment to Zionism as settler colonialism is known all too well; what we should explore, though, is the strategies through which such a commitment is articulated. I would question, however, whether rhetoric—a term that appears in the title...

... settler colonialism is instructive: “Whites claimed that they alone were able, and therefore entitled, to make proper use of the potential wealth on and under the soil” ( Fyfe 17 ). This thinking laid the foundation for a resilient machinery of extractive capital in Africa that serially adapts itself...

... the settler colonies with "good English stock" had not changed much since readers saw characters like Dickens's Mr. Micawber or Trollope's Alaric Tudor, Lucius Mason, and George Vavasor dis- patched to colonial settlements. What had changed was the character of the em- pire...

... of capital and industry in the settler-colonial development of the railroad. While its cast of literary and theoretical characters will be familiar to many, reading Capture produces the enormously satisfying experience of watching a single powerful thesis—the shift from hunt to capture—develop in a way...

... Bois binds this representational dilemma of appropriating swampland to the historical efforts of some agents of Reconstruction to direct furtive ecological and agricultural practices toward assimilation into a settler colonial archive, efforts that culminated in “a new state of serfdom of black folk...

... an outcome in which European modernity constitutes a permanent reshaping of the landscape, a renewed political and financial attachment to a settler colonial apartheid state, and a metaphoric and formal throttling—or enclosure—of those revolutionary energies that had previously animated political organizing...

... as it arrives in the periphery. Described as an “import” of the settler colony, the novel in Brazil is brilliantly discussed by Roberto Schwarz in his study of Machado de Assis, a “master” born in the European periphery. Schwarz’s pun on the word master—in the sense of a writer supremely proficient...

... restructured the American family by separating settlers from slaves in American households, assimilating French colonial others, and effacing the colonial family's origins as a settler-and-slave formation. To understand just how Stowe restructures the American national home in Uncle Tom's Cabin...

... the original Sydney tribe and re- duced the Botany Bay tribe to one man and three women" (Reece 5). The murder of Aboriginals was an all too regular occupation of settlers-free and bond-and one that successive colonial governments essentially winked at for many years. In an excerpt from Godfrey Charles...

... is the white settler colony to which Britons such as George Lewes's son Fred emigrated. 15 In doing so, they saw themselves as exporting British industriousness to “wasted” land they had seized from indigenous people. While practices of extraction predate the Capitalocene, it is very much part...

... become familiar in postcolonial, and more particularly, recent settler-colonial and decolonial studies. The story of Chaka, to adapt Chinua Achebe's formulation, is a story of how the rain began to beat the Basotho: how the people were unsettled from the land. For Mofolo, that rain had a name...

... in the United States are likely the products of voluntary immigration in the modern period, Black and Indigenous peoples are not. Their relationship to settler colonialism—a founding “sin,” if you like, that should not be entirely obscured by that of slavery—is one of nonvoluntary participation and direct...

... . Tolstoy Leo . Anna Karenin . 2 vols. Trans. Garnett Constance . London : Heinemann , 1901 . Whyte Kyle Powys . “ Food Sovereignty, Justice, and Indigenous Peoples: An Essay on Settler Colonialism and Collective Continuance .” The Oxford Handbook of Food Ethics . Ed. Barnhill...