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Author(s): Jonathan Bishop Highfield
ISBN(s): 9781433119873, 1433119870
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Year: 2012
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1433119870 
ISBN 13: 9781433119873
Author: Jonathan Bishop Highfield

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.

Imagined Topographies From Colonial Resource to Postcolonial Homeland Postcolonial Studies 1st Table of contents:

Chapter One. Introduction 1
Chapter Two. “An Irish Way” 19
History, dispossession, and the poetics of landscape 19
Speaking the bog: Landscape and identity in the works of Seamus Heaney, John Dunne, and Catherine Ha
Archaeology of reconciliation: Ciaran Carson’s Belfast Confetti and John Kindness’s Belfast Fres
Chapter Three. Mapping Amazonia 51
“Relief data unreliable” 51
Rewriting the epic: Wilson Harris’s Eternity to Season 60
Press your face to the earth and check out the real situation: Sustainable economies in Amazonia 75
Chapter Four. Dreaming Outback 83
Constructing a national identity in Australia 83
“A breath out of the heart of the country”: The landscapes of David Malouf 94
“Danger, Danger, Danger”: Anticolonialism and the animal world in Peter Carey’s Illywhacker 10
“By Crikey, he’s a naughty boy”: The dreaming of Steve Irwin 116
Many canoes and land rights 123
Chapter Five. Conclusion: “Trodding on the wine press” 133

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