1. Turning the tables - or, grounding post colonialism / Paul Carter -- 2. Comparative barbarism: game reserves, sugar plantations, and the modernization of South African landscape / David Bunn -- 3. The voyage south: writing immigration / Kerryn Goldsworthy -- 4. A 'white-souled state': across the 'South' with Lady Barker / Gillian Whitlock -- 5. 'Skirting the edges of civilization': two Victorian women travellers and 'colonial spaces' in South Africa / Michelle Adler -- 6. 'Rescuing' Barbara Thompson and other white women: captivity narratives on Australian frontiers / Kate Darian-Smith -- 7. Names and the land: poetry of belonging and unbelonging, a comparative approach / Liz Gunner -- 8. Imagination, madness and nation in Australian bush mythology / Sue Rowley -- 9. Inscribing identity on the landscape: national symbols in South Africa / Nhlanhla Maake -- 10. 'Great spaces washed with sun': the Matopos and Uluru compared / Terence Ranger
11. 'A land so inviting and still without inhabitants': erasing Koori culture from (post-) colonial landscapes / Tony Birch -- 12. Martha has no land: the tragedy of identity in The Marabi Dance / Abner Nyamende -- 13. Spaces of the 'Other': planning for cultural diversity in Western Sydney / Sophie Watson -- 14. Flatness and fantasy: representations of the land in two recent South African novels / Sarah Nuttall -- 15. Drum magazine (1951-99) and the spatial configurations of gender / Dorothy Driver -- 16. Rural transnationalism: Bessie Head's southern spaces / Rob Nixon
Summary
Includes a chapter on the debate about replacing English place names with Aboriginal place names in the Grampians, Victoria
Notes
Based on a conference "Southern spaces: land, representation and identity in South African and Australian literatures" organized by the School of African and Oriental Studies and the Sir Ralph Menzies Centre for Australian Studies at London University
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
A copy of this title was donated by Professor Ron Klein
