Washed with sun landscape and the making of white South Africa

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

Record details

ISBN: 9780822980353
ISBN: 0822980355
ISBN: 9780822943327 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0822943328 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780822959588 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0822959585 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (xiii, 336 pages, [24] pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
Publisher: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©2008.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User. CatMonthString:september.15 AC-SUB CatMonthString:june.15 Multi-user.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-326) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Restrictions unspecified
Reproduction Note:	Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011.
System Details Note:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
Action Note:	digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.