Washed with Sun

the long version

This book is a multidisciplinary study of South Africa as a space at once both natural and socially constructed. Weaving together practical, aesthetic, and ideological analyses, the author examines the role of landscape in forming the cultural iconographies and spatialities that shaped the imaginary geography of emerging nationhood. Looking in particular at the years following the British victory in the second Boer War, from 1902 to 1930, he discusses the influence of painting, writing, architecture, and photography on the construction of a shared, romanticized landscape subjectivity that was perceived as inseparable from "being South African," and thus helped forge the imagined community of white South Africa.