South of the West : postcolonialism and the narrative construction of Australia
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South of the West : postcolonialism and the narrative construction of Australia
（Arts and politics of the everyday）
Indiana University Press, c1992
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- : paper
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-249) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
"South of the West" is a study of Western aesthetics and the politics of everyday life. Cultural critic Ross Gibson examines an array of objects and attitudes encountered in his southern locale but best understood when considered in a global context. These different systems of representation construct 'Australia'. Gibson offers provocative analyses of 'national cinema' films of the 1970s, corporate-sponsored documentaries, explorer's narratives, cartographic history, ethnographic documents, archival photographs, postmodernist art, Edgar Allan Poe's "South Sea" tales, Thomas Watling's 'letters in exile', Chris Marker's 'exotic' cinematography, and Peter Fuller's musings about the 'antipodean aesthetic'. Nature, Gibson says, is the myth of an established Anglophone class. He suggests re-evaluation of our Western beliefs and aesthetics, and at the same time he presents a fresh interpretation of Australian culture and politics. The twelve chapters interweave to form an essay on the realignment of space, time, and meaning in contemporary Western societies.
目次
Bearings...An Introduction 1. The Middle Distance...or, The Printed World 2. Letters from Far-off Lands Two Studies of Writing in Exile I. Each Wild Idea as It Presents Itself A Commentary on Thomas WatlingOs Letters from an Exile at Botany-Bay II. What Do I Know? The Alien Subject in the Fugitive Films of Chris Marker 3. The Nature of a Nation Landscape in Australian Feature Films 4. Geography and Gender I. Forecast II. Precipitation 5. Beyond the Compass of Words Edgar Allan Poe, the South Seas, and A Manuscript Found in a Battle 6. The Keen Historic Spasm Rhetorical Uses for the Archival Photograph 7. Yarning 8. Yondering A Reading of Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome 9. Remembering Art 10. Elsewhere, Today. 2 False Starts about 4 Australian Artists Writing around the work of Jacky Redgate, Robyn Stacey, Jeff Gibson, and Anne Azhalka I. Elsewhere II. Today 11. Paranoid Critical Methods A Response to Peter FullerOs The Australian Scapegoal: Towards an Anitpodean Aesthetic 12. The Body on the Bed Notes Index
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