Washed with Sun: Landscape and the Making of White South Africa (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780822959588)

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 \u201cbeing South African, \u201d 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.

Author: Jeremy Foster
ISBN-10: 0822959585
ISBN-13: 9780822959588
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Language: English
Published: 07/10/2008
Pages: 424
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.95lbs
Size: 9.92h x 7.01w x 0.85d