Foster is illuminating on the connections between landscape, aesthetics, and white South African colonial consciousness. This subtly argued, innovative, and theoretically sophisticated study of space and place skillfully articulates issues of common interest to cultural geographers, historians, and art historians. - Saul Dubow, University of Sussex ""Washed with Sun is an aggressive assertion of the power of place. It locates ... Read morethe formation of South African national character in a sophisticated analysis of the materiality of terrain and the appropriation of landscape to render mnemonic inscapes. This study of the making of an imagined community demonstrates that while the emergence of a putative white South African identity was not remarkable, the imaginative processes choreographed to achieve it were."" - Brian S. Osborne, Queen's University Show Less