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Washed with sun : landscape and the making of white South Africa /
South Africa is recognized as a site of both political turmoil and natural beauty, and yet little work has been done in connecting these defining national characteristics. Washed with Sun achieves this conjunction in its multidisciplinary study of South Africa as a space at once natural and construc...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Pittsburgh, Pa. :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
©2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.