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Authors: Kate Darian-Smith
ISBN-13: 9780415124089, ISBN-10: 0415124085
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: September 1996
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Kate Darian-Smith

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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 contributors
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
1	Turning the tables - or, grounding post colonialism	23
2	Comparative barbarism: game reserves, sugar plantations, and the modernization of South African landscape	37
3	The voyage south: writing immigration	53
4	A 'white-souled state': across the 'South' with Lady Barker	65
5	'Skirting the edges of civilization': two Victorian women travellers and 'colonial spaces' in South Africa	83
6	'Rescuing' Barbara Thompson and other white women: captivity narratives on Australian frontiers	99
7	Names and the land: poetry of belonging and unbelonging, a comparative approach	115
8	Imagination, madness and nation in Australian bush mythology	131
9	Inscribing identity on the landscape: national symbols in South Africa	145
10	'Great spaces washed with sun': the Matopos and Uluru compared	157
11	'A land so inviting and still without inhabitants': erasing Koori culture from (post-) colonial landscapes	173
12	Martha has no land: the tragedy of identity in The Marabi Dance	191
13	Spaces of the 'Other': planning for cultural diversity in Western Sydney	203
14	Flatness and fantasy: representations of the land in two recent South African novels	219
15	Drum magazine (1951-99) and the spatial configurations of gender	231
16	Rural transnationalism: Bessie Head's southern spaces	243
	Index	255

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