Trevor Gould: Inventing a Homeland
Text by Philip Fry (English), Louis Cummins (French)


 

Trevor Gould is concerned with mental geography and inhabitation, with how culture works as an interior map, guiding our actions. In South Africa, his place of birth and early youth, a "homeland" is a circumscribed area assigned by white authority to black inhabitants much as indigenous peoples in Canada are consigned to artificial communities or reservations. Do we think that people, whether the colonized or the colonizers, can really be at home in such a situation?

$12
96 pages
21.5 x 28 cm
Colour and black and white reproductions
1993
ISBN 1-895108-09-8