Seeking the centre: the Australian desert in literature, art and film

Abstract

1. The land is a map: the Aboriginal relationship to the desert 2. Forms, images, imaginings: European myths of the desert 3. The 'hideous blank': imperatives for discovery 4. Geography is never innocent: or, what the explorers thought they saw 5. Perspectives on the desert: the art of exploration 6. 'On the tracts of thirst and furnace': dead explorers and national identity 7. Ripping yarns at the outpost of empire: the desert as adventure 8. From 'dead heart' to 'red centre': travellers' tales and the lure of gold 9. Seeing red: twentieth-century art of the desert 10. A gothic desert: psychodrama in fiction and film 11. Revisioning the explorers in twentieth-century art 12. Transforming myths: the explorers in twentieth-century literature 13. Seeing through biology: contemporary artists examine the desert 14. The desert in the Age of Aquarius: environmentalism and renewal 15. The art of reconciliation Appendix: some facts about the desert.

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