Cane Jonathan Civilising Grass: The Art of the Lawn in the South African Highveld 9781776143108

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Автор: Cane Jonathan
Название: Civilising Grass: The Art of the Lawn in the South African Highveld
ISBN: 9781776143108
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Литературоведение: Общие вопросы

Экология, биосфера

ISBN-10: 1776143108
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 264
Вес: 0.43 кг.
Дата издания: 30.08.2019
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 25 illustrations, black and white
Размер: 156 x 234 x 18
Ключевые слова: Regional studies,Anthropology,Literary studies: general,Gardens (descriptions, history etc),Landscape gardening,Natural history,The countryside, country life, NATURE / General,LITERARY CRITICISM / General
Подзаголовок: The art of the lawn on the south african highveld
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Civilising Grass is a socio-cultural analysis of the lawn on the South African highveld, exploring the complex relationship between landscape and power in the countrys colonial, modernist and post-apartheid eras Drawing from eco-criticism, queer theory, art history and postcolonial studies, this book offers a lively and provocative reading of texts and illustrations to reveal the racial and gendered aspects of natural environments. It argues that the lawn, an ordinary and often overlooked feature of South African everyday life, is neither natural nor innocent. Rather, like other colonial landscapes, the lawn functions as a site of commonplace violence, of oppression, dispossession and segregation. This book explores an eclectic archive of artistic, literary and architectural lawns between 1886 and 2017, analysing poems, maps, gardening blogs, adverts, ethnographies and ephemera, as well as literature by Koos Prinsloo, Marlene van Niekerk and Ivan Vladislavic. In addition, Civilising Grass includes colour reproductions of lawn artworks by David Goldblatt, Lungiswa Gqunta, Pieter Hugo, Anton Kannemeyer, Sabelo Mlangeni, Moses Tladi and Kemang Wa Lehulere. Examination of these and other works reveals the organic relationship between lawn and wildness, and between lawn and human/non-human actors – thereby providing rich and unexpected insights into South African society past and present.
Дополнительное описание: African history|Landscape gardening

Civilising Grass: The Art of the Lawn in the South African Highveld, Cane Jonathan