• Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Casting Suspect Humans in the Australian Settler State, 1788-1914

Casting Suspect Humans in the Australian Settler State, 1788-1914

Hardcover

Australia & OceaniaGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

PREORDER - Expected ship date February 2, 2027

ISBN10: 3032282284
ISBN13: 9783032282286
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Feb 2 2027
Pages: 215
Language: English
This book presents a cultural history of representation in the Australian settler state, tracing how certain bodies were cast as curious, deviant, or monstrous between 1788 and the early twentieth century. Drawing on case studies from courtrooms, exhibition culture, newspapers, photography, and popular literature, the book examines the making of bodily 'types' at the intersection of race, gender, class, and stigmatised embodiment. It brings into dialogue representations of Aboriginal cultural brokers and white settler subjects marked as anomalous, revealing both the coercive force and inherent instability of colonial tropes. Original and interdisciplinary, this book makes a significant contribution to Australian history, settler colonial studies, disability history, and the cultural history of embodiment.

Also from

Kennedy, Patricia

Also in

Australia & Oceania