This book offers an innovative new framework for reading British
and settler representations of Indigenous peoples in the nineteenth
century. Taking the representation of the Southern African San as
its case study, it uses methodologies drawn from critical
anthropology, imperial history and literary studies to show the
role that literary representations of Indigenous peoples played in
popularising the hierarchical view of racial difference. The study
identifies an 'ethnographic poetics' in which the claims of
scientific discourse blend with a consciously literary preference
for metaphor and analogy. This created a set of mobile figures that
could be disseminated to different reading publics in both Britain
and the colonies through a variety of literary genres and textual
media. It advances research on race and imperial history by
focusing on the importance of literature - from newspapers and
periodicals to popular novels - in shaping discourses of national
and racial belonging in Britain and the Cape Colony.
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