Abstract
Text, Theory, Space accepts one of the main challenges of postcolonial theory--to cross national and disciplinary borders--in addressing the complex interactions among land, space, power, cultural identity, and their various representations in southern (especially South) African and Australian literature, history, and cartography. In arranging the book's sixteen essays in three sections--"Defining the South," "Claiming Lands, Creating Identities, Making Nations," and "Borders, Boundaries, Open Spaces"--the editors have created a certain chronological coherence, moving from colonial accounts of the land to postcolonial ones. While this move helps to hold the collection together, it also gives focal status to the colonial moment: in choosing Australia and South Africa, variously described as white settler colonies and white supremacist states, Text, Theory, Space seems less concerned with that other challenge of postcolonial theory--restoring voices of the formerly colonized.
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