SouthHem: Settler and Indigenous Writing in the Colonial Southern Hemisphere and Straits Settlements, 1780-1870
www.ucd.ie/southhem
Funded by the European Research Council and based at University College Dublin, SouthHem is a five-year study (2016-2021) of the wide range of literary outputs and mediating institutions produced in the colonial Southern Hemisphere and Straits Settlements from 1780-1870. The institutions and literatures considered in this context include those of British settler communities, indigenous populations, and mixed race peoples both in English and in languages of origin. Adopting a combined comparative and transnational approach, the project focuses on literary exchanges between and within three relevant zones: “Zone 1” (Oceania): Australia and New Zealand; “Zone 2” (Southern Africa): the Cape Colony and Natal; and “Zone 3” (Straits Settlements): Singapore, Penang, and Malacca.
The project has three primary research questions: 1. How did literary modernity (and its institutions, associations, and print cultures) emerge and develop outside of Europe and the Northern Hemisphere? 2. How did taste, cultural capital, and literary value accrue in the colonial Southern Hemisphere and Straits Settlements? 3. How can with think about the relationship between settler and indigenous literary cultures in ways that credit the long histories of aesthetic production among colonized populations?
One aspect of the project focuses on book history and the history of reading, tracing both the circulation of books and the changing nature of book-holdings between and within the relevant zones. Our objective is a digital archive of book catalogues in the Southern Hemisphere (BCSH), including digital copies of all surviving private, library, auction, and bookseller catalogues in the region; glosses and descriptions of each of these catalogues; detailed investigations and visualisations of the changing nature of the region’s book holdings; and comparative cases studies on colonial literary institutions, such as libraries, mechanics’ institutes, and literary societies.
To see our editorial policy and the first iteration of BCSH, please visit our website: www.ucd.ie/southhem/catalogue. BCSH will eventually be presented in database form so that it will be possible to search for individual books within the catalogues. To learn more about our current case-studies and team members, and to find out about forthcoming events, please visit either our website or our project blog: http://southhem.org. We welcome contributions and guest blogs from colleagues. SouthHem will be advertising further postdoctoral fellowships later in 2018. Please contact us with any questions or queries: [log in to unmask]
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