The Cartographic Eye
The Cartographic Eye
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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.
- Engages with much contemporary theory
- An important contribution to debates in postcolonial studies
- An innovative view of explorers in the colonial context
Reviews & endorsements
'If you thought that Australia did not need another book on cartography and the gaze of empire, Simon Ryan's The Cartographic Eye should change your mind. The purpose is both straightforward and timely.' Australian Historical Studies
' … Simon Ryan's The Cartographic Eye is a very important book … Ryan's scholarship is both detailed and focussed … this is compelling reading.' Australian Geographical Studies
Product details
September 1996Paperback
9780521577915
248 pages
229 × 152 × 13 mm
0.34kg
24 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Exploring culture: the formation and fragmentation of the explorer
- 2. Picturesque visions: controlling the seen
- 3. Maps and their cultural constructedness
- 4. Seeing the Aborigines put in their place
- 5. The bosom of unknown lands
- Conclusion.
