Washed with sun : landscape and the making of white South Africa

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

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 construc...

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Main Author: Foster, Jeremy (Jeremy A.), 1955-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©2008.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Geschichte 1900-1950.
Geschichte 1900-1930.
Landscapes in art.
Arts and society > South Africa > History > 20th century.
Landscapes > Psychological aspects.
White people > Race identity > South Africa.
ART > Performance.
ART > Reference.
ARCHITECTURE > General.
Arts and society
Landscapes in art
Landscapes > Psychological aspects
White people > Race identity
Landschaft
Nationalismus
Rassismus
Landschaft > Motiv
Kunst
Identität > Weisse > Südafrika (Republik) > Geschichte 20. Jh.
Landschaft > Weisse > Südafrika (Republik) > Geschichte 20. Jh.
Landschaft.
Nationalismus.
Rassismus.
South Africa > In art.
South Africa
Weisse > Landschaft > Südafrika (Republik) > Geschichte 20. Jh.
Südafrika (Republik) > Politik > Geschichte 20. Jh.
Weisse.
Südafrika (Staat)
Weiße.
Art
History
works of art.
Art.
Œuvres d'art.
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Table of 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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