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Text, theory, space : land, literature, and history in South Africa and Australia / edited by Kate Darian-Smith, Liz Gunner, and Sarah Nuttall.

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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.

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Additional Authors
  • Darian-Smith, Kate.
  • Gunner, Elizabeth.
  • Nuttall, Sarah.
Description
xii, 263 p.; 23 cm.
Alternative Title
Land, literature and history in South Africa and Australia
Subject
  • Australia > In literature > Congresses
  • Australian literature > History and criticism > Congresses
  • Colonies in literature > Congresses
  • Decolonization in literature > Congresses
  • South Africa > In literature > Congresses
  • South African literature > History and criticism > Congresses
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