Description
This book compares the nineteenth-century settler literatures of Australia, Canada, South Africa, and the United States in order to examine how they enable readers to manage guilt accompanying European settlement.
Rebecca Weaver-Hightower is Professor of English at North Dakota State University, USA. Her publications include Empire Islands: Castaways, Cannibals and Fantasies of Conquest (2007), Postcolonial Film: History, Empire, Resistance with Peter Hulme (2014), and Archiving Settlement: Culture, Space and Race with Yuting Huang (2018). She works with postcolonial literature and film.