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Imagining the Cape Colony: History, Literature, and the South African Nation
David Johnson
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Description for Imagining the Cape Colony: History, Literature, and the South African Nation
Paperback. By returning to a pivotal moment in South African history - the Cape Colony in the period 1770-1830 - this book addresses current debates about nationalism, colonialism and neo-colonialism, and postcolonial/post-apartheid culture. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 3JH; DSBF; HBJH; HBLL; HBTQ. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 230 x 158 x 13. Weight in Grams: 356.
Examines literatures and histories of the Cape in relation to postcolonial debates about nationalism How the Cape Colony was imagined as a political community is examined by considering a variety of writers, from major European literati and intellectuals (Camoes, Southey, Rousseau, Adam Smith), to well-known travel writers like Francois Levaillant and Lady Anne Barnard, to figures on the margins of colonial histories, like settler rebels, slaves, and early African nationalists. Complementing the analyses of these primary texts are discussions of the many subsequent literary works and histories of the Cape Colony. These diverse writings are discussed first in relation ... Read more
Examines literatures and histories of the Cape in relation to postcolonial debates about nationalism How the Cape Colony was imagined as a political community is examined by considering a variety of writers, from major European literati and intellectuals (Camoes, Southey, Rousseau, Adam Smith), to well-known travel writers like Francois Levaillant and Lady Anne Barnard, to figures on the margins of colonial histories, like settler rebels, slaves, and early African nationalists. Complementing the analyses of these primary texts are discussions of the many subsequent literary works and histories of the Cape Colony. These diverse writings are discussed first in relation ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748664894
SKU
V9780748664894
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About David Johnson
David Johnson is Professor of Literature in the Department of English at The Open University. He is the author of Shakespeare and South Africa (Clarendon Press, 1996), with Richard Danson Brown, of Shakespeare 1609: Cymbeline and the Sonnets (Macmillan, 2000) and, with Steve Pete and Max Du Plessis, of Jurisprudence: A South African Perspective (Butterworths, 2001).
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