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Imagined Topographies - From Colonial Resource to Postcolonial Homeland (Hardcover, New edition)
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Imagined Topographies - From Colonial Resource to Postcolonial Homeland (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: Postcolonial Studies, 20
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One important legacy of colonialism is the separation of a culture
from the land upon which its people live. Populations are
displaced; topographical objects are renamed, and the land becomes
a resource to be exploited. Starting with three landscapes viewed
as threatening by the Europeans who colonized them, Imagined
Topographies examines the ways artists, writers, and musicians
distill new meaning in formerly colonized spaces through the
articulation of landscapes that are homelands, not commodities. In
the Irish bog Seamus Heaney explores legacies of violence, John
Dunne looks at rural poverty and religious faith, and Catherine
Harper creates art connecting landscape and gender. Influenced by
the Amazon, Wilson Harris creates dense multi-layered Guyanese
epics, Karen Tei Yamashita plays with the telenovela to explore the
role of multinational corporations in deforestation, and in
recordings Douglas Quin combines the natural world with the
technological, raising questions of connected cultural and natural
loss. The two landscapes of Australia, the empty land of the
colonizers and the fertile land known by the original inhabitants,
are explored in the novels of David Malouf, while Peter Carey turns
to the animal world to define the Australian national character,
and the people of Ramingining, in films and a website created in
collaboration with the filmmaker Rolf de Heer, intervene in the
Australian land rights struggle. Challenging the dominant
perceptions of land in these regions, artists, musicians, and
writers create new visions of landscapes tied to cultures where
social and ecological justice offer choices other than emigration
and habitat destruction.
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