Chapter INTRODUCTION -- part Part I DEFINING THE SOUTH -- chapter 1 Turning the tables--or, grounding post-colonialism -- chapter 2 COMPARATIVE BARBARISM -- chapter 3 THE VOYAGE SOUTH -- chapter 4 A 'WHITE-SOULED STATE' -- part Part II CLAIMING LANDS, CREATING IDENTITIES, MAKING NATIONS -- chapter 5 'SKIRTING THE EDGES OF CIVILIZATION' -- chapter 6 'RESCUING' BARBARA THOMPSON AND OTHER WHITE WOMEN -- chapter 7 NAMES AND THE LAND -- chapter 8 IMAGINATION, MADNESS AND NATION IN AUSTRALIAN BUSH MYTHOLOGY / Sue Rowley -- chapter 9 INSCRIBING IDENTITY ON THE LANDSCAPE -- chapter 10 'GREAT SPAGES WASHED WITH SUN' -- chapter 11 'A LAND SO INVITING AND STILL WITHOUT INHABITANTS' -- part Part III BORDERS, BOUNDARIES, OPEN SPACES -- chapter 12 MARTHA HAS NO LAND -- chapter 13 SPACES OF THE 'OTHER' -- chapter 14 FLATNESS AND FANTASY -- chapter 15 DRUM MAGAZINE (1951-9) AND THE SPATIAL CONFIGURATIONS OF GENDER -- chapter 16 RURAL TRANSNATIONALISM
Summary
Annotation Focusing on two white settler societies, South Africa and Australia, this book investigates the meaning of 'the South' as an aesthetic, political geographical and cultural space. This is a landmark in post-colonial theory and criticism
