Life Writing and the Southern Hemisphere

List of Contributors

I.Introduction

Elleke Boehmer and Katherine Collins, University of Oxford


II.Reading the south

1.Life-writing and imagining across southern space
Elleke Boehmer, University of Oxford

2.Prosthetics, Souvenirs, and Settlement: South-South Connections in Janet Frame's and Doris Lessing's Life Writing
Emma Parker, University of Bristol

3.Antarctic Futures: Francisco Coloane and Literary Nationalism
Elizabeth Chant, University of Warwick

4.Cross-cultural Life-Writing: Juxtaposing Adivasi/Tribal Indian and Indigenous Australian Texts
Priyanka Shivadas, University of Melbourne


III.Imagining spaces and spatiality

5.Unknowing a southern life: writing around the abyss
Katherine Collins, University of Oxford

6.Minority Life in Nigeria's South-South: Ken Wiwa's In the Shadow of a Saint
Obari Gomba University of Port Harcourt

7.Southwards from the Northeast
Archie Davies, Queen Mary University of London

8.The South as a continuous space
Pablo Wainschenker, University of Canterbury/Te Whare Wananga o Waitaha

9.J.M. Coetzee's Hispanic South
Cristóbal Pérez Barra, University of Oxford

IV.Reading and writing in southern waters

10.Tsunami, Tornado, Tide: Life and Writing of the Oceanic South in Selected Nonfiction by Amitav Ghosh
Charne Lavery, University of Pretoria

11.The representation of water-spirits in southern African Literature
Confidence Joseph, University of the Witwatersrand

12.All water has a perfect memory: In search of Dambudzo Marechera's stream
Tinashe Mushakavanhu, University of Oxford


V.Sounds, images and resonances in the Far South

13.The plankton net at the door: Scott's hut and the poetics of 'intimate immensity'
Joanna Price, Liverpool John Moores University

14.The Musical Lives of Mawson's Men
Carolyn Philpott, University of Tasmania

15.Signals from the South: Decoding the life of an Antarctic radio operator
Elizabeth Leane, University of Tasmania

16.Remote imag(in)ing the Antarctic: life-writing and the resonant page
Elizabeth Lewis Williams, University of East Anglia


VI.Embodying the south

17.The Fugitive Lives of David Stuurman
Sarah Comyn and Porscha Fermanis, University College Dublin

18.Recovering a biography of a Southern city, Bulawayo
Isaac Ndlovu, University of Pretoria

19.From the Far Bank: Two-Body Problem in the South
Louis Rogers

20.MOGAU-Grace
Khutso Mabokela, University of Pretoria


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