Imagining the Cape Colony : history, literature, and the South African nation /
Examines literatures and histories of the Cape in relation to postcolonial debates about nationalism. How the Cape Colony was imagined as a political community is examined by considering a variety of writers, from major European literati and intellectuals (Camões, Southey, Rousseau, Adam Smith), to...
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Language: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
©2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Remembering the Khoikhoi victory over Dom Francisco de Almeida at the Cape in 1510 : Luís de Camões and Robert Southey
- French representations of the Cape 'Hottentots' : Jean Tavernier, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and François Levaillant
- The Scottish enlightenment and colonial governance : Adam Smith, John Bruce and Lady Anne Barnard
- African land for the American empire : John Adams, Benjamin Stout and Robert Semple
- Historical and literary reiterations of Dutch settler Republicanism
- Literature and Cape slavery
- History and the Griqua nation : Andries Waterboer and Hendrick Hendricks.