The Briny South: Displacement and Sentiment in the Indian Ocean World Boer Nienke
The Briny South: Displacement and Sentiment in the Indian Ocean World Boer Nienke In The Briny South Nienke Boer examines the legal and literary narratives of enslaved, indentured, and imprisoned…
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The Briny South: Displacement and Sentiment in the Indian Ocean World Boer Nienke
In The Briny South Nienke Boer examines the legal and literary narratives of enslaved, indentured, and imprisoned individuals crossing the Indian Ocean to analyze the formation of racialized identities in the imperial world. From Dutch East India Company rule in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to early apartheid South Africa, Boer shows how colonial powers and settler states mediated and manipulated subaltern expressions of emotion as a way to silence racialized subjects and portray them as inarticulately suffering. Drawing on court records, ledgers, pamphlets, censors' reports, newsletters, folk songs, memoirs, and South African and South Asian works of fiction and autobiography, Boer theorizes the role of sentiment and the depiction of emotions to the construction of identities of displaced peoples across the Indian Ocean.
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