| Description |
218 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Imagining Space / Ruth Barcan and Ian Buchanan -- Imagining "Australia" Upside-Down and Inside-Out: Notes on the Australian Cultural Unconscious / John O'Carroll. Fantasies of the Antipodes / Paul Longley Arthur. "A Prospect of Future Regularity": Spatial Technologies in Colonial Australia / Tony Hughes-d'Aeth -- Spatial Semiotics. White Australia and the Aboriginal Invention of Space / Bob Hodge. Privates in Public: The Space of the Urinal / Ruth Barcan -- Bodies in Space. Driving Like A Boy: Sexual Difference, Embodiment and Space / Susan Best. Bodies in Motion: Spatialising Practice in Australian Dance / Elizabeth Dempster -- Outback, Wilderness, Nature. The Gender of Gardens: The Space of the Garden in Nineteenth-Century Australia / Susan K. Martin. Outback / Stephen Muecke. Place and Space: Views from a Tasmanian Mountain / Fiona Polack -- Lost Spaces. Drowned, Moved, Transferred or Rebuilt? Thinking about the Language of Lost Places / Peter Read -- Postmodern Space. Non-Places: Space in the Age of Supermodernity / Ian Buchanan. Tactile Simulations: Architecture and the Image of the Public at Brisbane's Kodak Beach / John Macarthur. Little Home Page on the Prairie: Narratives of Exploration and Settlement on the Electronic Frontier / Elizabeth Ferrier |
| Summary |
"Imagining Australian Space will be an important resource for students and teachers within Australian cultural studies, bringing together a number of approaches to spatial questions with a specifically Australian inflection. They include European predictions and fantasies of the Great South Land; the culture of exploration and mapping; Aboriginal uses of space; bodies, identity, and corporeal spaces; nature, tourism and lost places; cyberspace, simulacra and the dissolution of space."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
National characteristics, Australian.
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Nationalism -- Australia.
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Space and time.
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Spatial behavior -- Australia.
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Spatial behavior.
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| Author |
Barcan, Ruth.
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Buchanan, Ian, 1969-
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| LC no. |
00456471 |
| ISBN |
1876268379 |
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