03403nam 2200661 450 991045848060332120220208182156.00-8229-8035-5(CKB)2550000001329990(EBL)2045658(OCoLC)909142780(SSID)ssj0001267860(PQKBManifestationID)12477805(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001267860(PQKBWorkID)11264052(PQKB)11355448(MiAaPQ)EBC2045658(OCoLC)756610547(MdBmJHUP)muse40096(Au-PeEL)EBL2045658(CaPaEBR)ebr10895240(CaONFJC)MIL627575(EXLCZ)99255000000132999020140722h20082008 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrWashed with sun landscape and the making of white South Africa /Jeremy FosterPittsburgh, Pennsylvania :University of Pittsburgh Press,2008.©20081 online resource (377 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8229-4332-8 0-8229-5958-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 inLandscapes in artArts and societySouth AfricaHistory20th centuryLandscapesPsychological aspectsWhite peopleRace identitySouth AfricaSouth AfricaIn artElectronic books.Landscapes in art.Arts and societyHistoryLandscapesPsychological aspects.White peopleRace identity700.968Foster Jeremy(Jeremy A.),1955-962796MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910458480603321Washed with sun2183077UNINA