Washed with sun: landscape and the making of white South Africa
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Main Author: Foster, Jeremy, (Jeremy A.) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh, Pa. University of Pittsburgh Press ©2008
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Online Access:DE-1046
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Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-326) and index
Introduction: landscape, character, and analogical imagination -- From imperialism to nationalism: South Africanism and the politics of white nationhood -- Visual representation, discursive landscape, and "a simple life in a genial climate" -- Between corporeality and representation: theoretical and methodological excursus -- Baden-Powell and the Siege of Mafeking: the enactment of mythical place -- John Buchan's Hesperides: the aesthetics of improvement on the highveld -- Prospect, materiality, and the horizons of potentiality on Parktown Ridge -- Mrs. Everard's lonely career: the Komati Valley and the depiction of nostalgic displacement -- Modernity, memory, and the South African railways: the iconography of emptiness -- The life and afterlife of a contrapuntal subjectivity
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 336 pages, [24] pages of plates)
ISBN:0822980355
9780822980353

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