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Text, theory, space land, literature and history in South Africa and Australia

Title
Text, theory, space [electronic resource] : land, literature and history in South Africa and Australia / edited by Kate Darian-Smith, Liz Gunner and Sarah Nuttall.
ISBN
9780203992524 (electronic bk.)
0203992520 (electronic bk.)
0415124077
9780415124072
0415124085
9780415124089
Published
London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xii, 263 pages).
Local Notes
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Notes
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
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Variant and related titles
Land, literature and history in South Africa and Australia
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 30, 2019
Series
Post-colonial studies.
Post-colonial studies
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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