Elleke Boehmer and Katherine Collins, eds., Life Writing and the Southern Hemisphere. Texts, Spaces, Resonances

of Oxford in 2021, this volume is a carefully edited treasure trove of essays on the cultural imagination of the South.It brings together contributions from literary and cultural studies and aims to offer a broad view of the Southern hemisphere from the perspectives of world literary studies and the genres of life writing.In the introduction, the editors present the geographical area of the Southern hemisphere as a "blue hemisphere" (1), largely defined by the vast watery realm of the Southern Ocean around Antarctica.They point out that this hemisphere has traditionally been