Although written in 1879-1880, Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Amateur Emigrant from the Clyde to Sandy Hook was only posthumously published on account of the discomfort of Stevenson’s friends and family to its candid descriptions of dwelling amidst the lower-classes.
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, (original publisher: Blackwood's Magazine, 1899).
Regarding the narrations by which native and nature became figuratively collapsed under a logic of cultivation in the British colonial context, see Rosalind Morris, “Imperial Pastoral: The Politics and Aesthetics of Translation in British Malaya,” Representations Vol. 99, No. 1 (2001): 159–194.
Cited in John Reader Jackson’s The Mangrove and Its Allies, published in 1900. At the time, Jackson was Curator of the Museum of the Kew Royal Botanical Gardens.
As portrayed in the accounts of one Dr. Hamilton, presented to the British Royal Pharmaceutical Society in 1846: “Its roots rise in the form of arches, above the muddy soil in which it grows, and affords attachment to myriads of small but delicious oysters, which are left bare during the efflux of the tide, giving rise to the popular fable of oysters growing on trees, which, with the exception of their not being fed by, but merely adhering to the tree, is literally true. These oysters make a most incomparable soup, of which I once partook at the house of an American merchant, at Cape Henri.” Cited in Jackson’s The Mangrove and Its Allies.
See Amitav Gosh, The Hungry Tide, (New York: Mariner Books, 2005)
The term “aqueography” is advanced in Barber, M. (2005) “Where the Clouds Stand: Australian Aboriginal Relationships to Water, Place, and the Marine Environment in Blue Mud Bay, Northern Territory,” PhD Thesis, Australian National University. Research data underpinning the thesis was presented in evidence during the Blue Mud Bay case (Gumana vs. Northern Territory, 2005).
Joy Dayrit, Notes on Roberto Chabet's Bakawan, unpublished notes - 1974, (Hong Kong: The Chabet Archive, Asia Art Archive).
See Rosalind Morris, At War With Gertrude Stein, (lecture, 5th Annual Feminist Workshop, Duke University: 2011), also, Wars / Have (Not) Seen, (Calcutta: Seagull Books, forthcoming).
Roberto Chabet, Notes On Place / No Place, unpublished notes - 1996, (Hong Kong: The Chabet Archive, Asia Art Archive.
Aimé Césaire, Cahier d'un retour au pays natal (Notebook of a Return to the Native Land), (originally published Paris: Editions Presence Africaine, 1955).
Aimé Césaire, Discours sur le colonialisme (Paris: Présence Africaine, 1953).
This essay was composed within the framework of the ongoing research project “Landings,” and a forthcoming exhibition, to be held as part of the program “The World Turned Inside Out” at Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, May 25–August 18, 2013. We are grateful to Ringo Bunoan for her generous support in accessing the Robert Chabet Archive (Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong), and to the inspirational work of Roberto Chabet (1937-2013).