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The Southern Laboratory Experimentation and Authority in Britain’s New World by Rituparna Chakraborty

The Southern Laboratory Experimentation and Authority in Britain’s New World by Rituparna Chakraborty

₹800.00

To conceive of Australia as Britain’s “Southern Laboratory” is to confront the entanglement of experimentation and authority at the heart of colonial modernity. Yet this volume demonstrates that the laboratory was never a sealed chamber. It was porous, contested, and generative. The experiments conducted by imperial power produced unintended consequences: new identities, new literatures, new forms of resistance. Australian literature and culture, as explored in the essays that follow, reveal a trajectory from imposed authority toward negotiated plurality. The penal colony gave rise to narratives of resilience. The racial laboratory engendered powerful Indigenous counter-discourses. The constitutional experiment fostered both exclusion and democratic innovation. Environmental crises demand new forms of ecological consciousness. Gender and multicultural transformations challenge inherited hierarchies. The Southern Laboratory is thus not merely a metaphor for imperial control; it is also a metaphor for creative transformation. In the interplay between experimentation and authority, Australian culture has continually redefined itself. The essays in this collection invite readers to reconsider the dynamics of power, the possibilities of narrative, and the enduring question of how societies imagine themselves into being.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ PENPRINTS
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ 4 March 2026
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ First Edition
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 211 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 8199778040
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-8199778047
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 12 years and up
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 360 g
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.97 x 5.08 x 20.32 cm
  • Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ India
  • Packer ‏ : ‎ PENPRINTS, P-925 Lake Town, Block-A, Kolkata-700089 West Bengal, India. Phone no-8697875467 Website – www.penprints.in
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