...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...

... of the Dream: Australian Literature and the Postcolonial Mind . North Sydney : Allen and Unwin , 1991 . Johnston Anna , and Lawson Alan . “ Settler Colonies .” A Companion to Postcolonial Studies . Ed. Schwarz Henry and Ray Sangeeta . Malden, MA : Blackwell , 2000 . 360 – 76...

... 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...

... a surprisingly apt response to the moment of crisis. Neoliberalism and Cultural Transition in New Zealand Literature, 1984–2008: Market Fictions critiques the identity-focused approach that since the 1980s has dominated literary studies in postcolonial and settler-colonial contexts. Challenging models...

... is the exclusive characterization of Zionism as settler colonialism. When this argument was first introduced in the late 1960s and through its development over the next two decades, it carried with it great explanatory (as well as oppositional-political) power that productively reoriented our understanding...

... logic of white authority took root in Africa only after the 1884 European partition. Prior to that, whiteness did not automatically confer authority in Africa ( Fyfe 15–16 ). Second, there is a false assumption that white racism exclusively impacted settler colonies, sparing administrative colonies like...

... 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...

... 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...

... evangelization or conquest but instead the expansion of the Zulu empire—a historical dynamic that complicates overly simplistic and binary, before-and-after accounts of African history that have become familiar in postcolonial, and more particularly, recent settler-colonial and decolonial studies. The story...

... 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...

... Kyle Powys . “ Food Sovereignty, Justice, and Indigenous Peoples: An Essay on Settler Colonialism and Collective Continuance .” The Oxford Handbook of Food Ethics . Ed. Barnhill Anne , Budolfson Mark and Doggett Tyler . Oxford : Oxford UP , 2018 . 345 – 66 . 4...

...ROXANN WHEELER SRINIVAS ARAVAMUDAN, Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency, 1688–1804 (Durham: Duke University Press, 1999), pp. 424 + ill, cloth, $59.95, paper, $20.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2000 2000 Another Eighteenth Century SRINIVAS ARAVAMUDAN...

... to colonies, where it authorizes a white, male mobility at the expense of enslaved Africans and dispossessed Native Americans, thus undergirding the nation's imperialist ambition. At all times, police respond to the law's anxiety that “unknown persons out of place might pose unknowable threat to settled...

... and media studies, even if it has not always used those terms. One reason for this is that much of the literate production in the early years of settlement and colony does not conform to the belletristic categories we have inher- ited. A more profound reason is that so much of the record concerns...

... in the ideals of masculinity and mateship, Spence's novel explores Australian life through atten- tion to the domestic experiences of a group of colonial settlers in South Australia, including her emigrant heroine. By focusing on the anxieties Clara Morison shares with its predecessor, Jane Eyre, I...

... work- ers, de´classe´ middle-class women, and colonial settlers who are especially susceptible to the fantasy of an omnipotent state (21). Interestingly, the reading of The Story of an African Farm and the chapter on Afghanistan extend the analysis of state power to Britain’s relation to other...