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 | | The Cartographic Eye: How Explorers Saw Australia by Simon Ryan ISBN-10: 9780521571128 ISBN-10: 0-521-57112-X ISBN-13: 9780521571128 ISBN-13: 978-0-521-57112-8 Hardcover 1996-09-13 Cambridge University Press Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description This book is about the mythologies of land exploration, and about space and the colonial enterprise in particular. It is an innovative investigation of the presumptions, aesthetics and politics of Australian explorers' texts that shows that they are not the simple, unadorned observations their authors would have us believe. The book argues that contact with Aborigines are occasions of discursive contest. It scrutinizes and undermines the scientific and literary methodology of exploration. It will be a crucial text for readers in cultural, postcolonial and Australian studies. | ||
Book Description This book is about the mythologies of land exploration, and about space and the colonial enterprise in particular. It is an innovative investigation of the presumptions, aesthetics and politics of Australian explorers' texts that shows that they are not the simple, umadorned observations the authors would have us believe. The book argues that contact with Aborigines are occasions of discursive contest. It scrutinises and undermines the scientific and literary methodology of exploration. It will be a crucial text for readers in cultural studies, postcolonial studies and Australian studies. | ||