Washed with Sun
Subtitle: Landscape and the Making of White South Africa
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: January 28, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9780822943327
Subjects: Human geography; History; History - General History; History: World; Republic of South Africa; Africa - South - Republic of South Africa; Africa - South - South Africa; General; Landscape; History / South Africa; 20th century; Arts and society; Landscape in art; Psychological aspects; South Africa
Description: This book is a multidisciplinary study of South Africa as a space at once both natural and socially constructed. Weaving together practical, aesthetic, and ideological analyses, the author 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, he 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.