An original and wide-ranging study of the mappings used to impose meaning on the world, Mapping Reality argues that maps create rather than merely represent the ground on which they rest. From the history of cartography to mappings of culture, sexuality and nation, Geoff King draws on an extensive range of materials including mapping imposed in the colonial settlement of America, the Cold War, Vietnam and the events since the collapse of the Soviet bloc. He argues for a deconstruction of the opposition between map and territory to allow dominant mappings to be challenged, their contours redrawn and new grids imposed.
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The midwestern community of Lake Wobegone in Garrison Keillor's novel Lake Wobegone Days (1987) does not exist on the map. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cultural cartographies, cultural cartography, frontier mythology, cultural mappings, existing mappings, own mappings Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Cold War, Soviet Union, Los Angeles, Lake Wobegone, North America, Third World, The Right Stuff, Middle East, Star Wars, Ordnance Survey, Daniel Boorstin, Eastern Europe, Grand Canyon, New York, Second World War, Las Vegas, Middle Ages, New England, South America, Arabian Gulf, Daniel Boone, Monument Valley, Peter Carey, Rainbow Basin New!
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The midwestern community of Lake Wobegone in Garrison Keillor's novel Lake Wobegone Days (1987) does not exist on the map. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cultural cartographies, cultural cartography, frontier mythology, cultural mappings, existing mappings, own mappings Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Cold War, Soviet Union, Los Angeles, Lake Wobegone, North America, Third World, The Right Stuff, Middle East, Star Wars, Ordnance Survey, Daniel Boorstin, Eastern Europe, Grand Canyon, New York, Second World War, Las Vegas, Middle Ages, New England, South America, Arabian Gulf, Daniel Boone, Monument Valley, Peter Carey, Rainbow Basin New!
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- The Production of Space by Henri Lefebvre on 4 pages
- The American Puritans: Their Prose and Poetry by Perry Miller in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Mapping of America by Seymour I. Schwartz in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Question of Palestine by Edward W. Said in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences by Michel Foucault in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Moral Geography: Maps, Missionaries, and the American Frontier (Religion and American Culture) by Amy DeRogatis on page 192, and Back Matter
- Literature and Race in Los Angeles (Cultural Margins) by Julian Murphet in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Writing London, Volume 1: The Trace of the Urban Text from Blake to Dickens by Julian Wolfreys in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Shelley's Textual Seductions: Plotting Utopia in the Erotic and Political Works (Studies in Major Literary Authors) by Samuel Lyndon Gladden in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Shakespeare and the Classics by Charles Martindale on page 137
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