TY  - BOOK
AU  - Foster,Jeremy
TI  - Washed with Sun: Landscape and the Making of White South Africa
SN  - 9780822980353
AV  - NX653 
U1  - 700.968 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - PIttsburgh
PB  - University of Pittsburgh Press
KW  - Landscapes in art
KW  - Arts and society-South Africa-History-20th century
KW  - Landscapes-Psychological aspects
KW  - White people-Race identity-South Africa
KW  - South Africa-In art
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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