Imagining the Cape Colony : : History, Literature, and the South African Nation /

Imagining the Cape Colony : : History, Literature, and the South African Nation / / David Johnson.

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Relates the literatures and histories of the Cape to postcolonial debates about nationalismGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748664894','ISBN:9780748643080','ISBN:9780748650873']);How the Cape Colony was imagined as a political community is examined by considering...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
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Johnson, David,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2011
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (232 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1 Remembering the Khoikhoi Victory over Dom Francisco de Almeida at the Cape in 1510: Luís de Camões and Robert Southey
  • 2 French Representations of the Cape ‘Hottentots’: Jean Tavernier, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and François Levaillant
  • 3 The Scottish Enlightenment and Colonial Governance: Adam Smith, John Bruce and Lady Anne Barnard
  • 4 African Land for the American Empire: John Adams, Benjamin Stout and Robert Semple
  • 5 Historical and Literary Reiterations of Dutch Settler Republicanism
  • 6 Literature and Cape Slavery
  • 7 History and the Griqua Nation: Andries Waterboer and Hendrick Hendricks
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Index

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