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Author Foster, Jeremy (Jeremy A.), 1955-

Title Washed with sun : landscape and the making of white South Africa / Jeremy Foster.

Publication Info. Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2008]
©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 336 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
Physical Medium monochrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-326) and index.
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.
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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.
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Subject South Africa -- In art.
South Africa.
Landscapes in art.
Landscapes in art.
Arts and society -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century.
Arts and society.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Landscapes -- Psychological aspects.
Landscapes -- Psychological aspects.
Landscapes.
White people -- Race identity -- South Africa.
White people -- Race identity.
Chronological Term Geschichte 1900-1950
Geschichte 1900-1930
Geschichte 1900-1930
1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Art.
History.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Art.
Other Form: Print version: Foster, Jeremy (Jeremy A.), 1955- Washed with sun. Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©2008 (DLC) 2007049532 (OCoLC)154790055
ISBN 9780822980353 electronic book
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