![]() ![]() ![]() A briny South approach, I argue, combines the historical breadth and environmental focus of Ocean studies with the political and ethical drive toward understanding the subaltern experience of globalization that marks Global South studies. Penn, The Frontier in the Western Cape, 1700-1740 in John Parkington and Martin Hall, eds. After briefly touching on existing scholarship exemplifying the potential of the briny South, I turn to briny South networks of slavery and indenture in the Indian Ocean, both in historical sources and contemporary works of fiction. ROGUES, REBELS AND RUNAWAYS: 18TH-CENTURY CAPE CHARACTERS by Nigel Penn (David Philip) When asked how their latest work is doing, academics sometimes joke ironically about selling the film rights. For the activities of fugitives and droster gangs in this region see Nigel Penn, Rogues, Rebels and Runaways: ¿ignteentn-Century Cape Characters (Cape Town: David Philip, 1999), chapters 2 and 5. This article defines the briny South, the intersection between Global South studies and Ocean studies, as the study of transoceanic networks of subaltern connection. ![]() These fields usefully complement each other: Ocean studies stresses the importance of tracing networks of connection into the past, so that a historical Global South comes into view, while the concrete political and ethical solidarities at the heart of the Global South paradigm focuses Ocean studies on subaltern oceanic figures. Both Global South studies and Ocean studies emerged as ways of investigating an increasingly global, transnational literary terrain that is no longer tied to nation-states or continental area studies formations. ![]()
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