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Washed with sun : landscape and the making of white South Africa / Jeremy Foster.
Van Pelt Library NX653.S66 F67 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Foster, Jeremy (Jeremy A.), 1955-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- White people--Race identity.
- Landscapes--Psychological aspects.
- Landscapes.
- Arts and society.
- History.
- South Africa--In art.
- South Africa.
- Landscapes in art.
- Arts and society--South Africa--History--20th century.
- White people--Race identity--South Africa.
- White people.
- Genre:
- Art.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 336 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2008]
- Summary:
- Looking mainly at the years following the British victory in the second Boer War, from 1902 to 1930, Foster examines the influence of painting, writing, architecture, and photography on the construction of a shared, romanticized landscape subjectivity that was perceived as inseparable from " being South African" , and thus helped forge the imagined community of white South Africa.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-326) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822943327
- 0822943328
- 9780822959588
- 0822959585
- OCLC:
- 154790055
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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