Settling the Self

ISBN-13: 9783639170757 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 208 str.

Jessica Dubow

Opis

Space, place and identity are key terms in theformation of a colonial consciousness. Settling theSelf, examines the conjunction of these concepts inits interdisciplinary study of the nineteenth-centurySouth African landscape. Locating aesthetic analysesand postcolonial theory within a phenomenologicalaccount of visual and spatial perception, Dubowexamines the colony as a site of desire and anxietyin the making of a colonial identity and itshistorical legacy. It addresses concerns of commoninterest to cultural geographers, historians,postcolonial theorists, art historians and othersinterested in the meaning and experience of landscape.

O autorze

Jessica Dubow teaches cultural geography at the University of
Sheffield. She has published on spatial aesthetics and colonial
identity as well as on the work of W.G. Sebald and Walter
Benjamin. Her articles have appeared in a variety of
publications, including Critical Inquiry, Interventions: The
Journal of Postcolonial Studies and Art History.