Drawing on hemispheric, oceanic, and southern theory approaches, this article argues for the value of considering the nineteenth-century literary cultures of the southern settler colonies of Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa from within an interconnected frame of analysis. First, because of their distinctive historical and structural conditions; second, because of the density of their interregional networks and relations across intersecting oceanic spaces; and third, because of the long history of racialized imperialist imaginaries of the south. This methodological position rethinks current approaches to “British world” studies in two important ways: first, by decoupling the southern settler colonies from studies of settler colonialism in North America; and second, by rebalancing its metropolitan and northern locus by considering south-south networks and relations across a complex of southern islands, oceans, and continents. Without suggesting either that imperial intercultural exchanges with Britain are unimportant or that there is a culturally homogenous body of pan-southern writing, we argue that nineteenth-century literary culture from colonial Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa — what we call a “southern archive” — can provide a counterbalance to northern biases and provide new purchase on nation-centred literary paradigms — one that reveals not just south-south transnational exchanges and structural homologies between southern genres, themes, and forms, but also allows us to acknowledge the important challenges to foundational accounts of national literary canons initiated by southern theory and Indigenous studies scholars.

本文利用半球，海洋和南部的理论方法，从相互联系的分析框架中考虑澳大利亚，新西兰和南非南部定居者殖民地的19世纪文学文化的价值。首先，由于其独特的历史和结构条件；其次，由于其区域间网络的密度以及相交海洋空间之间的关系；第三，由于南方的帝国主义假想种族化的悠久历史。这种方法论立场以两种重要方式重新思考了当前的“英国世界”研究方法：首先，通过将南部定居者殖民地与北美定居者殖民主义的研究脱钩；其次，通过考虑南南网络和横跨南部岛屿，海洋和大洲的复杂关系来重新平衡其大都会和北部地区。在没有暗示与英国之间的帝国间文化交流不重要或没有泛南方文化的文化同质性的情况下，我们认为来自澳大利亚，新西兰和南非殖民地的19世纪文学文化-我们称之为“南方”档案” –可以抵消北方的偏见，并提供以国家为中心的文学范式的新购买方式–不仅揭示了南体，跨国交流和南部流派，主题和形式之间的结构同源性，