The sublime, imperialism and the African landscape

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dc.contributor.advisorParr, A.N
dc.contributor.authorWittenberg, Hermann
dc.date.accessioned2013-06-10T09:11:06Z
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-27T09:17:42Z
dc.date.available2007/04/23 08:02
dc.date.available2007/04/23
dc.date.available2013-06-10T09:11:06Z
dc.date.available2024-03-27T09:17:42Z
dc.date.issued2004
dc.descriptionDoctor Literarum - DLiten_US
dc.description.abstractIn this dissertation the author argued for a postcolonial reading of the sublime that takes into account the racial and gendered underpinnings of Immanuel Kant's and Edmund Burke's classic theories. The thesis used the understanding of the sublime as a lens for an analysis of the cultural politics of landscape in a range of late imperial and early modern texts about Africa. A re-reading of Henry Morton Stanley's central African exploration narratives, John Buchan's African fiction and political writing, and later texts such as Alan Paton's fiction, autobiographies and travel writing, together with an analysis of colonial mountaineering discourse, suggest that non-metropolitan discourses of the sublime, far from being an outmoded rhetoric, could manage and contain the contradictions inherent in the aesthetic appreciation and appropriation of contested colonial landscapes.en_US
dc.description.countrySouth Africa
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/9940
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of the Western Capeen_US
dc.rights.holderUniversity of the Western Capeen_US
dc.subjectSublimeen_US
dc.subjectModern Aestheticsen_US
dc.subject18th Centuryen_US
dc.subjectAestheticsen_US
dc.subjectEarly works to 1800en_US
dc.subjectHistoryen_US
dc.subjectPolitical aspectsen_US
dc.subjectPostcolonialism in literatureen_US
dc.subjectLandscapeen_US
dc.subjectNatureen_US
dc.titleThe sublime, imperialism and the African landscapeen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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