Alan Paton�s sublime: race, landscape and the transcendence of the liberal imagination

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dc.contributor.authorWittenberg, Hermann
dc.date.accessioned13/02/2014 16:08
dc.date.available13/02/2014 16:08
dc.date.issued2005
dc.description.abstractThis article develops a postcolonial reading of the sublime by suggesting that aesthetic theories of the sublime were, in their classical philosophical formulations by Edmund Burke and Immanuel Kant, founded on problematic assumptions of racial difference. In the colonial sphere, it is argued, the sublime could discursively manage and contain the contradictions inherent in the aesthetic appreciation and appropriation of contested landscapes. This is particularly evident in the Alan Paton's writing. This article looks at the origins and the influence of rhetoric of the sublime in Paton's work, particularly in his novel Cry, the Beloved Country, and argues that the sublime is a key discursive structure in the shaping of Paton's complex and ambivalent representation of South Africa's politicised and racialised landscape.en_US
dc.description.accreditationDepartment of HE and Training approved listen_US
dc.identifier.citationWittenberg, H. (2005). Alan Paton�s sublime: race, landscape and the transcendence of the liberal imagination. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa, 17(2):3-23en_US
dc.identifier.issn1013-929X
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/1011
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherUniversity of KwaZulu Natalen_US
dc.rightsThis is the author's post-print version of an article published by the University of KwaZulu Natal, and may be freely used, provided that full acknowledgement is given.
dc.source.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1013929X.2005.9678217
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectPaton, Alanen_US
dc.subjectPostcolonial readingen_US
dc.subjectInfluence of Rhetoric of Sublimeen_US
dc.subjectCry the Beloved Countryen_US
dc.titleAlan Paton�s sublime: race, landscape and the transcendence of the liberal imaginationen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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