Washed with sun [electronic resource] : landscape and the making of white South Africa / Jeremy Foster.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Foster, Jeremy (Jeremy A.), 1955-
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2008.
Subjects:
Landscapes in art.
Arts and society > South Africa > History > 20th century.
Landscapes > Psychological aspects.
White people > Race identity > South Africa.
South Africa > In art.
Genre:
In art.
Online Access:
ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2008 (Ebook Central @ Proquest)
EBSCO eBooks: 2008 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2008 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
Washed with Sun: Landscape and the Making of White South Africa
Format: Electronic eBook
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.