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Vanessa Berry’s Mirror Sydney: An Atlas of Reflections
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Blackwood, G, Vanessa Berry's Mirror Sydney: An Atlas of Reflections, Overland, (16 November 2017) ISSN 0030-7416 (2017) [Review Single Work]
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Abstract
Vanessa Berry’s new book Mirror Sydney: An Atlas of Reflections (Giramondo, 2017) is a travel guidebook of sorts: writing on Sydney that outlines overlooked places far distant to the dazzling tourist promenades that appear in The Lonely Planet and other popular collections. But this highly rewarding collection of essays (with accompanying illustrations) also transcends the panegyrical tone of much city writing, managing to examine the confronting politics of urban space while also thoughtfully re-imagining the contemporary act of memoir-writing. As the title transparently intimates, this is a book that reflects in a philosophical sense as well as ‘through the looking glass’.
Item Details
Item Type: | Review Single Work |
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Keywords: | psychogeography, Australian literature, cultural geography, urban studies, travel writing |
Research Division: | Studies in Human Society |
Research Group: | Human Geography |
Research Field: | Social and Cultural Geography |
Objective Division: | Cultural Understanding |
Objective Group: | Arts and Leisure |
Objective Field: | The Creative Arts (incl. Graphics and Craft) |
UTAS Author: | Blackwood, G (Ms Gemma Blackwood) |
ID Code: | 130779 |
Year Published: | 2017 |
Deposited By: | Office of the School of Social Sciences |
Deposited On: | 2019-02-12 |
Last Modified: | 2019-02-12 |
Downloads: | 0 |
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