Washed with sun landscape and the making of white South Africa
Introduction: landscape, character, and analogical imaginationFrom 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: theoretic...
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Pittsburgh, Pa.
University of Pittsburgh Press
c2008
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Introduction: landscape, character, and analogical imaginationFrom 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. 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 -- Parktown Ridge and the horizons of potentiality -- 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 |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index. - Formerly CIP |
| Beschreibung: | XIII, 336 S Ill., graph. Darst., Kt 23cm |
| ISBN: | 9780822959588 978-0-8229-5958-8 0822959585 0-8229-5958-5 9780822943327 978-0-8229-4332-7 0822943328 0-8229-4332-8 |