Text, Theory, Space: Land, Literature and History in South Africa and Australia - Softcover

 
9780415124089: Text, Theory, Space: Land, Literature and History in South Africa and Australia

Synopsis

Focusing on two white settler societies, South Africa and Australia, this book investigates the meaning of 'the South' as an aesthetic, political geographical and cultural space. This is a landmark in post-colonial theory and criticism.

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About the Author

Kate Darian-Smith, Liz Gunner, Sarah Nuttall

From the Back Cover

The essays in this wide-ranging and interdisciplinary collection examine travel writing and the colonial construction of space; the cultural mythologizing of place; the imagining, and realization, of both urban and rural spaces; the politics of spatial boundaries; and questions of belonging, land ownership and nationhood.

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9780415124072: Text, Theory, Space: Land, Literature and History in South Africa and Australia

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ISBN 10:  0415124077 ISBN 13:  9780415124072
Publisher: Routledge, 1996
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