Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 09:33:57 +0800
From: h_grehan-AT-central.murdoch.edu.au (Helena )
Subject: Re:mapping identity 




Dear Nancy,

thank you very much for your prompt and informative response.  I have read
Pile and Thrift and found them useful especially the  chapter by Gillian
Rose on The female subject of Feminism - I have ordered Kirbys book but it
is taking a while to get here and I am now rushing off to find the article
by Jane Jacobs - thank you thank you.

I must say I feel a little lost in this terrain - as my previous focus was
very feminist/performance orientated but it was not broad enough and the
stuff on geography and mapping just popped up out of the blue - one of the
plays I am working on entitled Ningali is very interesting in relation to
mapping as it is performed on a set whihc is a picture of the face of the
performer - and the story/narrative (?) is about her journey through
life/continents/etc

anyway I'm rambling - thanks again I would love (read kill) to get a copy of
BodySpace - just tell me what to do...

hoping to hear from you soon.

xxhelena
>Dear Helena, Do you know mapping the subject:geographies of cultural
>transformation by Steve Pile and Nigel Thrift Routledge 1995 or Indifferent
>Boundaries: spatial concepts of human subjectivity by Kathleen Kirby
>Guilford December 1995 or the work of Jane Jacobs in Peter Jackson and Jan
>Penrose Constructions of Race, Place and Nation "Shake 'im this country":
>the Mapping of the Aboriginal sacred in Australia - the case of Coronation
>Hill" and an article co-authored with an aboriginal woman on performance and
>an aboriginal park in Australia in Ecumeme: environment culture meaning (I
>think I've got that right) (She is in the department of geography at
>Parkville Victoria e-mail jane-jacobs.geography-AT-muwayF.unimelb.edu.au There
>is also a forthcoming article by Gillian Rose on a performance which is
>intended to destabilize the implicitly masculine subjectivity which
>constructs geographical performances.It is in BodySpace: Destabilizing
>Geographies of Gender and Sexuality - I am editing the book and it will not
>be out until next summer but I could send you a copy if you are interested.
>I think that Catherine Nash has an article in Ecumene as well. These
>citations are all to the work of geographers. Geographers are doing some
>interesting work these days on mapping and the performance of identity. Best
>Wishes, Nancy Duncan  
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>At 12:41 PM 1/3/96 +0800, you wrote:
>>Dear Listmembers
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>>I am doing a dissertation on Australian Aboriginal women in
>>theatre/performance.  The areas I am concentrating on are - the mapping of
>>identity through theatre and its reception\interpretation by the
>>critic/spectator - this involves analysis of performance theory (feminist)
>>issues of story/historiography and theories of location\positionality - I am
>>at present looking at two plays by contemporary urban Aboriginal women (both
>>co-authored) which deal with identity-and story and are fairly non-realist*
>>(although this is debatable in one case) .  I am looking for some good
>>theoretical material on mapping - or any of the above areas - I have just
>>read an article by Catherine Nash in Feminist Review called "Remapping and
>>Renaming: New Cartographies of Identity, Gender and Landscape in Ireland"
>>which was fantastic - and inspiring - if anyone has any suggestions I'd be
>>delighted.  ALso I would love to hear of any conferences in 1996 that may be
>>appropriate to my area - I am psychic-ing myself up to give a paper - thanks
>>in advance for your help
>>
>>helena
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>>*western notions of realism
>>Helena Grehan
>>Theatre and Drama Studies
>>Murdoch University 
>>Perth
>>Western Australia
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Helena Grehan
Theatre and Drama Studies
Murdoch University 
Perth
Western Australia



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