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The Spatial Humanities eBook Series

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  • Imagined Landscapes

    Geovisualizing Australian Spatial Narratives

    by Jane Stadler, Peta Mitchell, Stephen Carleton ...
    Series series The Spatial Humanities
    An analysis of the depiction of Australia's landscape in its films and literature.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 ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Telling Stories

    Indigenous history and memory in Australia and New Zealand

    by Bain Attwood, Fiona Magowan ...
    Recent decades have seen a tremendous upsurge of interest among the indigenous peoples of Australia and New Zealand in their history. Life stories, land claims, genealogy, song, dance and painting have all made new contributions to the recovery and representation of the past.Telling Stories looks at the place of life stories and of memory in history: who tells life stories, the purpose for which ... Read more

    $14.89 CAD

  • A Brief Take on the Australian Novel

    by Jean-François Vernay ...
    Grab the popcorn, sit back and let the story of Australian literature roll ... From Jean-Francois Vernay, "A Brief Take on the Australian Novel" offers a sweeping view of Australian writing since colonialism. Written from an outsider's perspective, this single-authored overview will appeal to readers through its playful, jargon-free and potentially contentious account of the Australian novel. ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • Rattling Spears

    A History of Indigenous Australian Art

    by Ian McLean ...
    Large, bold, and colorful, indigenous Australian art—sometimes known as Aboriginal art—has made an indelible impression on the contemporary art scene. But it is controversial, dividing the artists, purveyors, and collectors from those who smell a scam. Whether the artists are victims or victors, there is no denying the impact of their work in the media, on art collectors and the art world at large ... Read more

    $60.49 CAD

  • More Than Words: The Making of the Macquarie Dictionary

    by Pat Manser ...
    'The Editorial Committee of the dictionary of Australian English, led by Arthur Delbridge, were adamant that their dictionary was to be descriptive. It was an important point of difference from traditional dictionary policy. This dictionary would give an account of Australian English as it was heard and written. We wanted it all: spoken, written, technical, polite, rude. The speech of labourers, ... Read more

    $8.17 CAD

  • Touring the Screen

    Tourism and New Zealand Film Geographies

    by Alfio Leotta ...
    Following the success of prominent feature films shot on location, including Tolkien’s wildly popular The Lord of the Rings, New Zealand boasts an impressive film tourism industry. This book examines the relationship between New Zealand’s cinematic representation—as both a vast expanse of natural beauty and a magical world of fantasy on screen—and its tourism imagery, including the ways in which ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • Research Through, With and As Storying

    by Louise Gwenneth Phillips, Tracey Bunda ...
    Research Through, With and As Storying explores how Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars can engage with storying as a tool that disassembles conventions of research. The authors explore the concept of storying across different cultures, times and places, and discuss principles of storying and storying research, considering Indigenous, feminist and critical theory standpoints. Through the book, ... Read more

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  • Remote Avant-Garde

    Aboriginal Art under Occupation

    by Jennifer Loureide Biddle ...
    Series series Objects/Histories
    In Remote Avant-Garde Jennifer Loureide Biddle models new and emergent desert Aboriginal aesthetics as an art of survival. Since 2007, Australian government policy has targeted "remote" Australian Aboriginal communities as at crisis level of delinquency and dysfunction. Biddle asks how emergent art responds to national emergency, from the creation of locally hunted grass sculptures to biliterary ... Read more

    $31.89 CAD

  • New Zealand Cinema

    Interpreting the Past

    Edited by Alistair Fox, Barry Keith Grant, Hilary Radner ...
    New Zealand has produced one of the world’s most vibrant film cultures, a reflection of the country’s evolving history and the energy and resourcefulness of its people. From early silent features like The Te Kooti Trail to recent films such as River Queen, this book examines the role of the cinema of New Zealand in building a shared sense of national identity. The works of key directors, including ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • A Companion to the Works of Kim Scott

    by Belinda Wheeler, Natalie Quinlivan, Nathanael Pree, Per Henningsgaard, Roger Osborne, Rosalie Thackrah, Sandra Thompson, Tony Hughes-d'Aeth, Arindam Das, Brenda Machosky0, Christine Choo1, Gillian Whitlock2, Jeanine Leane3, Lisa Slater4, Lydia Saleh Rofail5 ...
    Since the mid-1980s there has been a sharp rise in the number of literary publications by Indigenous Australians and in the readership and impact of those works. One contemporary Aboriginal Australian author who continues to makea contribution to both the Australian and the global canon is Kim Scott (1957-). Scott has won many awards, including Australia's highest, the prestigious Miles Franklin ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Aboriginal Art and Australian Society

    Hope and Disenchantment

    by Laura Fisher ...
    Series Book 1 - Anthem Studies in Australian Literature and Culture
    This book is an investigation of the way the Aboriginal art phenomenon has been entangled with Australian society’s negotiation of Indigenous people’s status within the nation. Through critical reflection on Aboriginal art’s idiosyncrasies as a fine arts movement, its vexed relationship with money, and its mediation of the politics of identity and recognition, this study illuminates the mutability ... Read more

    $33.39 CAD

  • The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature

    Edited by David Rudd ...
    Series series Routledge Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Children’s Literature is a vibrant and authoritative exploration of children’s literature in all its manifestations. It features a series of essays written by expert contributors who provide an illuminating examination of why children’s literature is the way it is. Topics covered include:the history and development of children's literaturevarious theoretical approaches ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD