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

Author/creator Foster, Jeremy, 1955-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoPittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press,
Descriptionxiii, 336 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 26 cm.
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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.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 307-326) and index.
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