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1 online resource (xiii, 336 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 constructed. Weaving together practical, aesthetic, and ideological analyses, Jeremy Foster examines the role of landscape in forming the cultural iconographies and spatialities that shaped the imaginary geography of emerging nationhood. Looking in particular at the years following the British victory in |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-326) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Landscapes in art.
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Arts and society -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century
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Landscapes -- Psychological aspects
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White people -- Race identity -- South Africa
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ART -- Performance.
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ART -- Reference.
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ARCHITECTURE -- General.
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Arts and society
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Landscapes in art
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Landscapes -- Psychological aspects
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White people -- Race identity
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Landschaft
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Nationalismus
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Rassismus
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Landschaft Motiv
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Kunst
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Identität -- Weisse -- Südafrika (Republik) -- Geschichte 20. Jh.
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Landschaft -- Weisse -- Südafrika (Republik) -- Geschichte 20. Jh.
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Landschaft.
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Nationalismus.
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Rassismus.
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South Africa -- In art
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South Africa
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Weisse -- Landschaft -- Südafrika (Republik) -- Geschichte 20. Jh.
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Südafrika (Republik) -- Politik -- Geschichte 20. Jh.
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Weisse.
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Südafrika (Staat)
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Südafrika (Staat)
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Weiße.
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Art
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780822980353 |
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0822980355 |
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