Books by Rebecca Weaver-Hightower

Much of the intellectual effort in the surging field of settler colonial studies since the late 1990s has been to theorize the structural distinction between colonialism and settler colonialism. While the field has always been interdisciplinary, its emphasis on settler colonialism as a political structure has largely privileged political history

This book compares the nineteenth-century settler literatures of Australia, Canada, South Africa, and the United States in order to examine how they enable readers to manage guilt accompanying European settlement.