Text, Theory, Space: Post-Colonial Representations and Identity
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Text, Theory, Space is a landmark in post-colonial criticism and theory. Focusing on two white settler societies, South Africa and Australia, the contributors investigate the meaning of 'the South' as an aesthetic, political, geographical and cultural space. Drawing upon a wide range of disciplines which include literature, history, urban and cultural geography, politics and anthropology, the contributors examine crucial issues including:• defining what 'the South' encompasses• investigating ideas of space, history, land and landscape• claiming, naming and possessing land• national and personal boundaries• questions of race, gender and nationalism
Notes on contributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction11Turning the tables - or, grounding post colonialism232Comparative barbarism: game reserves, sugar plantations, and the modernization of South African landscape373The voyage south: writing immigration534A 'white-souled state': across the 'South' with Lady Barker655'Skirting the edges of civilization': two Victorian women travellers and 'colonial spaces' in South Africa836'Rescuing' Barbara Thompson and other white women: captivity narratives on Australian frontiers997Names and the land: poetry of belonging and unbelonging, a comparative approach1158Imagination, madness and nation in Australian bush mythology1319Inscribing identity on the landscape: national symbols in South Africa14510'Great spaces washed with sun': the Matopos and Uluru compared15711'A land so inviting and still without inhabitants': erasing Koori culture from (post-) colonial landscapes17312Martha has no land: the tragedy of identity in The Marabi Dance19113Spaces of the 'Other': planning for cultural diversity in Western Sydney20314Flatness and fantasy: representations of the land in two recent South African novels21915Drum magazine (1951-99) and the spatial configurations of gender23116Rural transnationalism: Bessie Head's southern spaces243Index255
