The Fish River bush and the place of history
Journal Article
2005
Permanent link to this Item
Authors
Journal Title
South African Historical Journal
Link to Journal
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Publisher
University of Cape Town
Department
Faculty
License
Series
Abstract
When I first wrote about the Fish River Bush, a decade or more ago, I was primarily interested in those imperial and colonial representations, constituting a landscape, which served as a text by which to read the ideology of the colonial frontier.' That interest has persisted, and is outlined here, but what has overtaken it is a sense of the persistence of colonial ideology in landscape — the way in which the historically intense moment of the frontier has persisted in latter-day representations of the eastern Cape, as if the landscape, after a century and more, were still encrypted with the codes of identity extended and contested across it back then.
Description
Reference:
Anderson, P. R. (2005). The Fish River Bush and the Place of History. South African Historical Journal, 53(1), 23-49.