Washed with Sun: Landscape and the Making of White South Africa Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Washed with Sun: Landscape and the Making of White South Africa Book

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 in the second Boer War, from 1902 to 1930, Foster discusses the influence of painting, writing, architecture, and photography on the construction of a shared, romanticized landscape subjectivity that was perceived as inseparable from  “being South African,” and thus helped forge the imagined community of white South Africa.    In its innovative approach to South Africa's history, Washed with Sun breaks important new ground, combining the persuasive theory of cultural geography with the material specificity of landscape history.Read More

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  • 0822959585
  • 9780822959588
  • Jeremy Foster
  • 15 January 2008
  • University of Pittsburgh Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 424
  • 1
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