"Our wattled cot" : mercantile and domestic space in Thomas Pringle's African landscapes
- Author
- Bunn, David
- Document type
- Article (acte de congrès)
- Language
English
- Conference title
- Landscape and power
- Author (monograph)
- Mitchell, W. J. T. (Editor, Collective Author)
- Source
- Landscape and power. 1994, 127-173, 12 ill.
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press, Chicago (usa)
- Publication country
- United States
- Abstract (en)
- Studies the image of the Colonial British in Africa in Pringle's poems, and compares this representation to illustrations in travel literature of the late 18th c. through ca.1820. Asserts that the colonial landscape of Cape Colony, as it appeared in both the images and the poems, differed significantly from its European counterpart; the African landscape does not follow the conventions of British terrain, but rather is conceived as a liminal zone between the self and savagery, and "rendering things visible is a necessary prerequisite to administrative control." Discusses issues such as colonial capitalism, gender differences among settlers, and class distinctions.
- Subject (en)
- Subject (fr)
- Origin
DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)
Identifier19940701-00345170
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