Durable Monuments: Claiming bodies, souls and the past in Colonial Australia by Peter H Hoffenberg

Nineteenth-century Australian settlers, in an architectural, cultural and intellectual claiming of their new land, filled their landscape with durable monuments — allusions of visual, textual, linguistic kinds to a remembered, imagined, idealised, far-distant homeland. This book chronicles how colonists adjusted to surroundings that were without everyday signifiers of European civilisation; where it was self-assuring to create one’s own references to an ancient cultural inheritance, and also to claim to be of the land — becoming indigenous, in fact, by constructing a locality with its own symbolic references to a past that was meaningful for them.

PB, 2024, 235 pp

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Nineteenth-century Australian settlers, in an architectural, cultural and intellectual claiming of their new land, filled their landscape with durable monuments — allusions of visual, textual, linguistic kinds to a remembered, imagined, idealised, far-distant homeland. This book chronicles how colonists adjusted to surroundings that were without everyday signifiers of European civilisation; where it was self-assuring to create one’s own references to an ancient cultural inheritance, and also to claim to be of the land — becoming indigenous, in fact, by constructing a locality with its own symbolic references to a past that was meaningful for them.

PB, 2024, 235 pp

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Weight .53 kg
Dimensions 22.9 × 152 × 1.5 cm

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