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Position doubtful : mapping landscapes and memories / Kim Mahood.

By: Publisher: Brunswick, Victoria : Scribe Publications, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: 320 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text, still image
  • cartographic image
  • still image
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781925321685 (paperback)
Other title:
  • Position doubtful
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • A828.309
Contents:
The remembered earth -- Vertigo -- Anxiety and desire -- Improvisations I -- Searching for the inland sea -- Palimpsest -- Testimony -- Erasure -- Songlines and faultlines -- Erasure -- Stock Route Dreaming -- Mapping common ground -- 'Kartiya' days -- Dotting the grid -- Hiatus -- Improvisations II -- Lacuna -- Lacuna -- Mapping common ground -- Obscured by light -- Requiem -- Unstable horizons -- Undertow.
Summary: This is a beautiful and intense exploration of friendships, landscape, and homecoming. Written with great energy and humour, Position Doubtful offers a unique portrait of the complexities of black and white relations in contemporary Australia.
List(s) this item appears in: JSNWL Book Club
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Notes Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks 828.309 MAH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library and ILL JSNWL Book Club - April 2018 67974

Mentions about Paruku Indigenous Protected Area (Great Sandy Desert and Tanami). Also about Wirntiki Dreaming.

Mentions, number of Aboriginal names and skin names throughout the book.

Bibliography: pages 315-317.

The remembered earth -- Vertigo -- Anxiety and desire -- Improvisations I -- Searching for the inland sea -- Palimpsest -- Testimony -- Erasure -- Songlines and faultlines -- Erasure -- Stock Route Dreaming -- Mapping common ground -- 'Kartiya' days -- Dotting the grid -- Hiatus -- Improvisations II -- Lacuna -- Lacuna -- Mapping common ground -- Obscured by light -- Requiem -- Unstable horizons -- Undertow.

This is a beautiful and intense exploration of friendships, landscape, and homecoming. Written with great energy and humour, Position Doubtful offers a unique portrait of the complexities of black and white relations in contemporary Australia.

Description based on: 2017 printing

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