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One important legacy of colonialism is the separation of a culture from the land upon which its people live. Populations are displaced; topographical objects are renamed, and the land becomes a resource to be exploited. Starting with three landscapes viewed as threatening by the Europeans who colonized them, Imagined Topographies examines the ways artists, writers, and musicians distill new meaning in formerly colonized spaces through the articulation of landscapes that are homelands, not commodities. In the Irish bog Seamus Heaney explores legacies of violence, John Dunne looks at rural poverty and religious faith, and Catherine Harper creates art connecting landscape and gender. Influenced by the Amazon, Wilson Harris creates dense multi-layered Guyanese epics, Karen Tei Yamashita plays with the telenovela to explore the role of multinational corporations in deforestation, and in recordings Douglas Quin combines the natural world with the technological, raising questions of connected cultural and natural loss. The two landscapes of Australia, the empty land of the colonizers and the fertile land known by the original inhabitants, are explored in the novels of David Malouf, while Peter Carey turns to the animal world to define the Australian national character, and the people of Ramingining, in films and a website created in collaboration with the filmmaker Rolf de Heer, intervene in the Australian land rights struggle. Challenging the dominant perceptions of land in these regions, artists, musicians, and writers create new visions of landscapes tied to cultures where social and ecological justice offer choices other than emigration and habitat destruction. «'Imagined Topographies' is in every sense a vital work of materialist scholarship, alive to the way landscapes act as imaginative repositories for stories and meanings. Working across the arts, Jonathan Bishop Highfield is an astute interpreter of the complex topographies of colonial dispossession and creative repossession. This is an impressive, essential book that straddles postcolonial, visual, and environmental studies.» (Rob Nixon, Author of 'Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor') «With the lyrics of Bob Marley as signposts urging us to reflect on our existential condition and with a range of poets and writers, 'Imagined Topographies' takes us into some of the unanswered issues of coloniality and its traces upon our contemporary moment. Reminding us that colonial power is about conquest and dispossession and that decolonization is a time yet to arrive, this book takes us on a journey from Ireland to Guyana and Australia. The reading of Wilson Harris is original and we are treated to insights into how landscape repossessed becomes home. The text broadens the field of postcolonial theory and should be read.» (Anthony Bogues, Harmon Family Professor of Africana Studies, Brown University; Author of 'Empire of Liberty: Power, Desire, and Freedom')

Landscapes in literature. --- Setting (Literature) --- Geographical myths in literature. --- Postcolonialism.

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Utopias in literature --- Geographical myths in literature --- Geography in literature --- Reality in literature

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Epic poetry, Greek --- Odysseus (Greek mythology) in literature. --- Geography, Ancient, in literature. --- Geographical myths in literature. --- Voyages and travels

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Comparative literature --- Thematology --- Psychological study of literature --- 82:159.9 --- Voyages, Imaginary --- -Geographical myths in literature --- Psychoses in literature --- Psychoanalysis in literature --- Imaginary travels --- Imaginary voyages --- Travels, Imaginary --- Exoticism in literature --- Robinsonades --- Voyages to the otherworld --- Literatuur en psychologie. Literatuur en psychoanalyse --- History and criticism --- Geographical myths in literature. --- Psychoanalysis in literature. --- Psychoses in literature. --- History and criticism. --- 82:159.9 Literatuur en psychologie. Literatuur en psychoanalyse --- Geographical myths in literature

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Geats. --- Geographical myths in literature. --- Names, Geographical --- English language --- Epic poetry, English (Old) --- Geography, Medieval, in literature. --- Middle Ages. --- English (Old). --- Etymology --- Names. --- History and criticism. --- Beowulf.