Southern Imagining : A Literary and Cultural History of the Far Southern Hemisphere.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boehmer, Elleke.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Southern Hemisphere.

Southern Hemisphere--Civilization.

Southern Hemisphere--In literature.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (417 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2025.

Summary:

A new compass for global reading: looking at the world from the far southern latitudes A northern viewpoint is most often the default, while the south--the far southern latitudes occupied by Australia, New Zealand, Argentina and southern Africa, among others--seems far away and ignorable.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

List of Images and Map

Preface

Acknowledgements

A Word on Terminology

1. A Hemisphere Awry

'All Different, Quite Different'

Inhabiting the South in the Mind

Where Is the South?

Not East: The South as External

Thinking from the South with Story

The Global South in Theory

Outline

Southern Curves

Color Plates

2. Shared Skies: Speaking and Singing the South

Thinking from and through the South

Structural Meditation-a Southern Reading

Archipelagic Understanding

Words

Stars

Seas

3. Reading the South: Camões's 'Audacious Passage'

'Laid Down in Some Charts': A Collage of Reading

Navigating South, or Worlding in Motion

A Very Short History of Mapping the Unknown

Reading and Writing Distance

The Epic as Portolan: Luís de Camões, The Lusíads (1572)

Adamastor's Southern Vertex, Camões's Parabola

4. Writing Southern Seas: Coleridge, Darwin, Melville, Shelley

Turning: Through the Southern Depths

Shaping Seascapes

Foundational Frames: North into South

'The Sun Now Rose upon the Right': Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Distance and Darwin: The Voyage of the Beagle

'The White Mass Floating in the Sun': Herman Melville's Moby-Dick

Coda-Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, a Study in Monomania

5. 'Silent Vastness': the Farthest South

Beset by Ice: Finding the Endurance

The Farthest South: An Overview

Asymptote

South-South Connectivity

On Not Articulating the Ice: Orsman, Manhire, Bainbridge, McGregor, Diski

6. 'Breaking the Solemn Monotony': Settler Cartographies

Reading South

Writing Elsewhere

Latitudinal Links across the South

Southern Poetics: Not Far but Here

Cartographies and Case Studies

7. Keeping South: Writing from Here

River, Cliff, and Stars: Jazz Money and Gabeba Baderoon

Thinking from the South (Again)

Southscapes-Being Here

Speaking the Land

Connection and Reconnection across the South

'You and the Movement of Water'

8. Faraway Close

On the Farthest Edges of the World

And Yet Their Closeness

Contrariwise, to the Stars

Wheeling across the Sky

Turning to Day

Within Space-Time

A Sound of Southern Space

Faraway Close

Looping Back to the Distant Edge

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-691-27420-7

9780691274201

OCLC:

1545645505