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Imagined Landscapes teams geocritical analysis with digital visualization techniques to map and interrogate films, novels, and plays in which space and place figure prominently. Drawing upon A Cultural Atlas of Australia, a database-driven interactive digital map that can be used to identify patterns of representation in Australia's cultural landscape, the book presents an integrated perspective on the translation of space across narrative forms and pioneers new ways of seeing and understanding landscape. It offers fresh insights on cultural topography and spatial history by examining the technical and conceptual challenges of georeferencing fictional and fictionalized places in narratives. Among the items discussed are Wake in Fright, a novel by Kenneth Cook, adapted iconically to the screen and recently onto the stage; the Australian North as a mythic space; spatial and temporal narrative shifts in retellings of the story of Alexander Pearce, a convict who gained notoriety for resorting to cannibalism after escaping from a remote Tasmanian penal colony; travel narratives and road movies set in Western Australia; and the challenges and spatial politics of mapping spaces for which there are no coordinates.

Introduction: Geocriticism's Disciplinary Boundaries
Acknowledgments
1. Remediating Space: Adaptation and Narrative Geography
2. Cultural Topography and Mythic Space: Australia's North as Gothic Space
3. Spatial History: Mapping Narrative Perceptions of Place over Time
4. Mobility and Travel Narratives: Geovisualizing the Cultural Politics of Belonging to the Land
5. Terra Incognita: Mapping the Uncertain and the Unknown
Bibliography
Index

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Media Studies

Literary Criticism

Oceanian

Australian

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Publié par	Indiana University Press
Date de parution	21 décembre 2015
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EAN13	9780253018496
Langue	English
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IMAGINED LANDSCAPES
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I MAGINED L ANDSCAPES
GEOVISUALIZING AUSTRALIAN SPATIAL NARRATIVES
J ANE S TADLER , P ETA M ITCHELL S TEPHEN C ARLETON
This book is a publication of
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS Office of Scholarly Publishing Herman B. Wells Library 350 1320 East 10th Street Bloomington, Indiana 47405 USA
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2016 by Jane Stadler, Peta Mitchell, and Stephen Carleton All rights reserved
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Stadler, Jane. author. Imagined landscapes : geovisualizing Australian spatial narratives / Jane Stadler, Peta Mitchell, and Stephen Carleton. pages cm. - (The spatial humanities) Includes index. ISBN 978-0-253-01838-0 (cloth : alk. paper) - ISBN 978-0-253-01845-8 (pbk. : alk. paper) - ISBN 978-0-253-01849-6 (ebook) 1. Australian literature-History and criticism. 2. Landscapes in literature. 3. Motion pictures-Australia-History and criticism. 4. Landscapes in motion pictures. 5. Space and time in literature. 6. Space and time in motion pictures. 7. Australia-In literature. 8. Australia-In motion pictures. I. Mitchell, Peta, author. II. Carleton, Stephen, [date]- author. III. Title. PR 9605.5. L 35 S 73 2016 820.9 994-dc23
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This book is dedicated to renowned spatial humanities scholar P. J. Carstell, and to our traveling companions Hannah, Alex, Amara, and Hugo .
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Geocriticism s Disciplinary Boundaries
1 Remediating Space: Adaptation and Narrative Geography
2 Cultural Topography and Mythic Space: Australia s North as Gothic Zone
3 Spatial History: Mapping Narrative Perceptions of Place over Time
4 Mobility and Travel Narratives: Geovisualizing the Cultural Politics of Belonging to the Land
5 Terra Incognita: Mapping the Uncertain and the Unknown
Works Cited
Index
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The authors are grateful to our research assistant, Luke Houghton, for preparing the GIS maps of Red Dog s travels, of mining activity, and of Native Title in the Pilbara and in Western Australia as a whole, and for mapping Alexander Pearce s journey. Sincere thanks are also due to our other wonderful research assistants Carolyn Lake, Melanie Piper, David Faraker, Sean Tan, and Fiona McKean.
The introduction contains material from a chapter by Peta Mitchell and Jane Stadler, Redrawing the Map: An Interdisciplinary Geocritical Approach to Australian Cultural Narratives, first published in an anthology edited by Robert Tally, Geocritical Explorations: Space, Place, and Mapping in Literary and Cultural Studies (2011), reproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan.
We are grateful to Anthony Buckley for granting access to his Wake in Fright archive, and to Bob Pavlich; Jenny Camilleri from the Broken Hill Historical Society; Brian Tonkin, Archives Officer, Broken Hill City Council; and Glenda Veitch and Norm Ricaud at the State Records Authority of New South Wales for assistance provided in researching chapter 1 .
Chapter 2 contains material from an article by Stephen Carleton, titled Australian Gothic: Theatre and the Northern Turn, published in Australian Literary Studies 27.2 (2012).
Chapter 3 contains material from an article originally published by Jane Stadler, Mapping the Cinematic Journey of Alexander Pearce, Cannibal Convict, in Screening the Past , no. 34 (2012), reproduced with permission from the journal s editor, Professor Adrian Martin.
We gratefully acknowledge permission to reproduce the Indigenous Language Map created by David R. Horton for Aboriginal Studies Press, AIATSIS and Auslig/Sinclair, Knight, Merz (1996).
The Cultural Atlas of Australia was generously funded by an ARC Discovery Grant (2011-2013). We also acknowledge research support provided throughout the project by the University of Queensland.
IMAGINED LANDSCAPES
INTRODUCTION
Geocriticism s Disciplinary Boundaries
Yet there is no use in pretending that all we know about time and space, or rather history and geography, is more than anything else imaginative
- SAID , Orientalism 55
This is a book about imagined landscapes and imaginative geographies, about the ways in which narrative fiction or spatial stories-films, novels, and plays-continually shape and reshape the contours of our geography and our history. In Imagined Landscapes , we work from the premise that narrative fiction intersects with experiences of and ideas about landscape, identity, and the development of a sense of place such that spatial storytelling makes a strong contribution to geographic and historical awareness. Cultural representations of landscapes, as Christopher Tilley observes, form a signifying system through which the social is reproduced and transformed, explored and structured (34). Representations of landscape, therefore, do far more than frame the environment as a background against which narrative action plays out; they generate symbolism and produce cultural meaning. Such narratives, we argue, form and inform perceptions of space and place as they represent and communicate spatial concepts and cultural and environmental issues. As Tilley claims, places may be said to acquire a history, sedimented layers of meaning by virtue of the actions and events that take place in them (27). One way this occurs is in the production of spatial stories, which Michel de Certeau defines as cultural narratives that traverse and organize places: they select and link them together; they make sentences and itineraries out of them (115). The case studies presented in this book exemplify such spatial stories. While these narratives are grounded in the landscape and culture of Australia, the insights drawn from them have relevance to questions of nation and narration around the world. As we have argued elsewhere, Representations of space and place are always ideological, always implicated in some form of nation-building or identity-formation, and considering imagined, fictive, representational, or mythic geographies allows us to see the ways in which representations of space and place are intimately bound up in the nexus of power-knowledge (Mitchell and Stadler Imaginative 29).
Moreover, in this book, we contend that traditional modes of close reading and textual analysis are, by themselves, inadequate to the task of understanding broader patterns of spatial representation and their relationships to history, geography, and culture. In Imagined Landscapes , we investigate how teaming a geocritical method of analysis with digital visualization techniques to map spatial narratives can help to reveal new perspectives on enduring questions in cultural studies and narrative analysis. This book is intended as a sustained and critical engagement with the use of digital narrative cartography to map and interrogate films, novels, and plays in which space and place figure prominently, and, as such, it is framed around a significant digital geovisualization project-the Cultural Atlas of Australia . The Cultural Atlas ( http://www.australian-cultural-atlas.info ), which was developed by the authors with funding from the Australian Research Council, was designed to investigate and map the cultural and historical significance of location and landscape in Australian narrative fiction, thereby presenting the first national survey of narrative space spanning Australian novels, films, and plays. The aims and scope of the Cultural Atlas will be introduced in greater detail later in this chapter, but, in essence, it is a database-driven interactive digital map that enables its users to explore Australian places and spaces as they are represented in and through films, novels, and plays, and to map and identify patterns of representation in the country s cultural landscape.
This research-both the book and the digital resource that underpins it-responds to the growing interest in mediated representations of space that increasingly connects the digital humanities, cultural studies, geography, film, theater, and literary studies. Our interdisciplinary approach involves three scholars, specializing in different disciplines, who work together to provide an integrated perspective on the translation or remediation of space across narrative forms and to pioneer new ways of seeing and understanding landscape. By examining the technical and conceptual challenges of georeferencing fictional and fictionalized places in narratives that involve journeys, movement through time, and different perspectives on the landscape, we seek to offer fresh