Dark Writing : : Geography, Performance, Design / / Paul Carter.

We do not see empty figures and outlines; we do not move in straight lines. Everywhere we are surrounded by dapple; the geometry of our embodied lives is curviform, meandering, bi-pedal. Our personal worlds are timed, inter-positional, and contingent. But nowhere in the language of cartography and d...

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Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Writing Past Colonialism
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Physical Description:1 online resource (328 p.) :; 71 illus., 21 in color, 4 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Plates
  • Preface: The Great Divide
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Outlines
  • Chapter 1: Step-by-Step: Geography’s Myth
  • Chapter 2: Dark with Excess of Bright: Mapping the Coastlines of Knowledge
  • Chapter 3: Drawing the Line: Putting Spatial History into Practice
  • Chapter 4: The Interpretation of Dreams: Mobilizing the Papunya Tula Painting Movement, 1971–1972
  • Chapter 5: Making Tracks: Interpreting a Ground Plan
  • Chapter 6: Solutions: Storyboarding a Humid Zone
  • Chapter 7: Trace: A Running Commentary on Relay
  • Chapter 8: Dark Writing: The Body’s Inscription in History’s Light
  • Conclusion: Linings
  • Bibliography
  • Index