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cover of A Cezanne in the Hedge and Other Memories of Charleston and Bloomsbury

A Cezanne in the Hedge and Other Memories of Charleston and Bloomsbury

Edited by Hugh Lee

University of Chicago Press, 1992

The Bloomsbury circle has long preoccupied writers, critics, and the general public alike. For many years its focal point was Charleston Farmhouse in Sussex, home to Vanessa and Clive Bell and Duncan Grant. A Cézanne in the Hedge brings together thirty firsthand reminiscences of the Charleston, vividly and amusingly evoking its creativity—and eccentricity. Childhood memories from Quentin Bell, Angelica Garnett, and Nigel Nicholson are interspersed with appraisals of the work of Bloomsbury members such as Roger Fry, Maynard Keynes, and Virginia Woolf and of their contribution to twentieth-century British art and thought. The finale is a childhood spoof written by Virginia Woolf entitled "A Terrible Tragedy in a Duckpond."
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cover of From Hedge to Living Bridge: Re-Imagining the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden

From Hedge to Living Bridge

Re-Imagining the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden

Melanie Boehi

University of Michigan Press, 2027

Offering a micro-history of the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden in Cape Town, From Hedge to Living Bridge situates the botanical garden in the context of colonial botany and local and global struggles to decolonize space and place. At the time of its establishment in 1913, the botanical garden was imagined as a vehicle to promote white South African nationalism. During the apartheid era, the state deployed the botanical garden in international image campaigns to counter international isolation. In the post-apartheid period, the botanical garden attempted to transform its colonial and apartheid displays to accommodate the new democratic nation. 

Melanie Boehi reveals that while the botanical garden was designed as a white space, Black people always claimed belonging to it, as it was built on land shaped by Indigenous presence, slavery, and apartheid forced removals. 

Drawing from multispecies ethnography, Boehi expands the conventional concept of the archive to include the landscape and the garden’s plants. While the botanical garden was imagined as a colonial tool of separation, it also has the potential to function as a living bridge between people who were segregated by colonialism and apartheid, as well as between humans and nonhuman nature.

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