Text, Theory, Space

Kate Darian-Smith, Liz Gunner, Sarah Nuttall

'The sixteen essays ... demonstrate interdisciplinary study at its best.' - Times Literary Supplement'As its subtitle implies, this important collection pf essays embarks on a comparative exercise, namely to bring questions of Australian and South African literature and history into a comparative dialogue. Such a comparative undertaking has seldom been attempted before. By opening up the possibility for such 'interlocking conversations' this book is a pioneer in what should become an important and burgeoning field of research.' - SOAS Bulletin, Vol. 61, No. 2, 1998'Here is a genuinely provocative and courageous analysis...' - Nations and Nationalism' ... rich in detail and diversity and highly informative.' - Ecumene'an enormously pleasurable and rewarding collection of essays' - Interventions

• Acknowledgements. Biographical notes. Introduction. Part O ne: Defining the South 1. Paul Carter Turning the Tables - or, Grounding Post-colonialism 2. David Bunn Comparative Barbarism: Game Reserves, Sugar Plantations, and the Modernization of South African Landscape 3. Kerryn Goldsworthy The Voyage South: Writing Immigration 4. Gillian Whitlock A 'White Souled State': Across the 'South' with Lady Barker Part Two. Claiming Lands, Creating Identites, Making Nations 5. Michelle Adler 'Skirting the edges of civilization': Two Victorian Women Travellers and 'colinial spaces' in South Africa 6. Kate Darian-Smith 'Rescuing' Barbara Thompson and other White Women: Captivity Narratives on Australian Frontiers 7. Liz Gunner Names and the Land: Poetry of Belonging and Unbelonging, a Comparative Approach 8. Sue Rowley Imagination, Madness and Nation in Australian Bush Mythology 9. Nhlanhla Maake Inscribing Identity on the Landscape: National Symbols in South Africa 10. Terence Ranger Great Spaces Washed with Sun: the Matopos and Uluru compared 11. Tony Birch 'A Land so inviting and still without inhabitants': Erasing Koori Culture from (post) colonial Landscapes Part Three. Borders, Boundaries, Open Spaces 12. Abner Nyamende Martha has no Land: the Tragedy of Identity in The Marabi Dance 13. Sophie Watson Spaces of the 'Other': Planning for Cultural Diversity in Western Sydney 14. Sarah Nuttall Flatness and Fantasy: Land Images in Two Recent South African Novels 15. Dorothy Driver Drum Magazine (1951-59) and the Spatical Configurations of Gender 16. Rob Nixon Rural Transnationalism: Bessie Head's Southern Spaces