ABSTRACT

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

chapter |20 pages

INTRODUCTION

part |2 pages

Part I DEFINING THE SOUTH

chapter 2|16 pages

COMPARATIVE BARBARISM

chapter 3|12 pages

THE VOYAGE SOUTH

chapter 4|16 pages

A ‘WHITE-SOULED STATE’

part |2 pages

Part II CLAIMING LANDS, CREATING IDENTITIES, MAKING NATIONS

part |2 pages

Part III BORDERS, BOUNDARIES, OPEN SPACES

chapter 12|12 pages

MARTHA HAS NO LAND

chapter 13|14 pages

SPACES OF THE ‘OTHER’

chapter 14|12 pages

FLATNESS AND FANTASY

chapter 16|12 pages

RURAL TRANSNATIONALISM