{"id":1122,"date":"2026-05-11T07:56:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T07:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/penprints.in\/shop\/?post_type=product&#038;p=1122"},"modified":"2026-05-11T07:57:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T07:57:34","slug":"the-southern-laboratory-experimentation-and-authority-in-britains-new-world-by-rituparna-chakraborty","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/penprints.in\/shop\/product\/the-southern-laboratory-experimentation-and-authority-in-britains-new-world-by-rituparna-chakraborty\/","title":{"rendered":"The Southern Laboratory Experimentation and Authority in Britain\u2019s New World by Rituparna Chakraborty"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"a-unordered-list a-nostyle a-vertical a-spacing-none detail-bullet-list\">\n<li><span class=\"a-list-item\"><span class=\"a-text-bold\">Publisher \u200f : \u200e\u00a0<\/span>PENPRINTS<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"a-list-item\"><span class=\"a-text-bold\">Publication date \u200f : \u200e\u00a0<\/span>4 March 2026<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"a-list-item\"><span class=\"a-text-bold\">Edition \u200f : \u200e\u00a0<\/span>First Edition<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"a-list-item\"><span class=\"a-text-bold\">Language \u200f : \u200e\u00a0<\/span>English<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"a-list-item\"><span class=\"a-text-bold\">Print length \u200f : \u200e\u00a0<\/span>211 pages<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"a-list-item\"><span class=\"a-text-bold\">ISBN-10 \u200f : \u200e\u00a0<\/span>8199778040<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"a-list-item\"><span class=\"a-text-bold\">ISBN-13 \u200f : \u200e\u00a0<\/span>978-8199778047<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"a-list-item\"><span class=\"a-text-bold\">Reading age \u200f : \u200e\u00a0<\/span>12 years and up<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"a-list-item\"><span class=\"a-text-bold\">Item Weight \u200f : \u200e\u00a0<\/span>360 g<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"a-list-item\"><span class=\"a-text-bold\">Dimensions \u200f : \u200e\u00a0<\/span>13.97 x 5.08 x 20.32 cm<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"a-list-item\"><span class=\"a-text-bold\">Country of Origin \u200f : \u200e\u00a0<\/span>India<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"a-list-item\"><span class=\"a-text-bold\">Packer \u200f : \u200e\u00a0<\/span>PENPRINTS, P-925 Lake Town, Block-A, Kolkata-700089 West Bengal, India. 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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. 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