Research Catalog
Text, theory, space : land, literature, and history in South Africa and Australia / edited by Kate Darian-Smith, Liz Gunner, and Sarah Nuttall.
- Title
- Text, theory, space : land, literature, and history in South Africa and Australia / edited by Kate Darian-Smith, Liz Gunner, and Sarah Nuttall.
- Publication
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.
Items in the Library & Off-site
Filter by
1 Item
Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
---|---|---|---|---|
Not available - Please for assistance. | Text | Request in advance | PN56.C63 T49 1996 | Off-site |
Holdings
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- xii, 263 p.; 23 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Land, literature and history in South Africa and Australia
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Conference papers and proceedings
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Note
- Based on a conference "Southern spaces: land, representation and identity in South African and Australian literatures" organized by the School of African and Oriental Studies and the Sir Ralph Menzies Centre for Australian Studies at London University.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1. Turning the tables -- or, grounding post colonialism / Paul Carter -- 2. Comparative barbarism: game reserves, sugar plantations, and the modernization of South African landscape / David Bunn -- 3. The voyage south: writing immigration / Kerryn Goldsworthy -- 4. A 'white-souled state': across the 'South' with Lady Barker / Gillian Whitlock -- 5. 'Skirting the edges of civilization': two Victorian women travellers and 'colonial spaces' in South Africa / Michelle Adler -- 6. 'Rescuing' Barbara Thompson and other white women: captivity narratives on Australian frontiers / Kate Darian-Smith -- 7. Names and the land: poetry of belonging and unbelonging, a comparative approach / Liz Gunner -- 8. Imagination, madness and nation in Australian bush mythology / Sue Rowley -- 9. Inscribing identity on the landscape: national symbols in South Africa / Nhlanhla Maake -- 10. 'Great spaces washed with sun': the Matopos and Uluru compared / Terence Ranger.
- ISBN
- 0415124077
- 0415124085 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^^98138981^
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library