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

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Landscape, Character, and Analogical Imagination -- 2. From Imperialism to Nationalism: South Africanism and the Politics of White Nationhood -- 3. Visual Representation, Discursive Landscape, and "A Simple Life in a Genial Climate" -- 4. Between Corporeality and Representation: Theoretical and Methodological Excursus -- 5. Baden-Powell and the Siege of Mafeking: The Enactment of Mythical Place -- 6. John Buchan's Hesperides: The Aesthetics of Improvement on the Highveld -- 7. Prospect, Materiality, and the Horizons of Potentiality on Parktown Ridge -- 8. Mrs. Everard's Lonely Career: The Komati Valley and the Depiction of Nostalgic Displacement -- Color plates -- 9. Modernity, Memory, and the South African Railways: The Iconography of Emptiness -- 10. The Life and Afterlife of a Contrapuntal Subjectivity -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Looking mainly at the years following the British victory in the second Boer War, from 1902 to 1930, Foster examines 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.

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