Washed with sun : landscape and the making of white South Africa / / Jeremy Foster |
Autore | Foster Jeremy (Jeremy A.), <1955-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (377 p.) |
Disciplina | 700.968 |
Soggetto topico |
Landscapes in art
Arts and society - South Africa - History - 20th century Landscapes - Psychological aspects White people - Race identity - South Africa |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8229-8035-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458480603321 |
Foster Jeremy (Jeremy A.), <1955-> | ||
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2008 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Washed with sun : landscape and the making of white South Africa / / Jeremy Foster |
Autore | Foster Jeremy (Jeremy A.), <1955-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (377 p.) |
Disciplina | 700.968 |
Soggetto topico |
Landscapes in art
Arts and society - South Africa - History - 20th century Landscapes - Psychological aspects White people - Race identity - South Africa |
ISBN | 0-8229-8035-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791164803321 |
Foster Jeremy (Jeremy A.), <1955-> | ||
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2008 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Washed with sun : landscape and the making of white South Africa / / Jeremy Foster |
Autore | Foster Jeremy (Jeremy A.), <1955-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (377 p.) |
Disciplina | 700.968 |
Soggetto topico |
Landscapes in art
Arts and society - South Africa - History - 20th century Landscapes - Psychological aspects White people - Race identity - South Africa |
ISBN | 0-8229-8035-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820992103321 |
Foster Jeremy (Jeremy A.), <1955-> | ||
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2008 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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