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Cartographic Conspiracies: Maps, Misinformation, and Exploitation in Peter Carey's 'American Dreams'
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Cartographic Conspiracies: Maps, Misinformation, and Exploitation in Peter Carey's 'American Dreams'
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Nicholas Dunlop discusses the 'difficulties inherent in transferring or compressing our own epistemologies of space and time into a static, two-dimensional model' - the map. In this context he examines Peter Carey's American Dreams as 'a useful introduction to the ways in which Carey's work frequently questions the use of the cartographic metaphor for the pursuit or maintenance of individual or hegemonic agendas'.
Dunlop concludes: 'American Dreams ... articulates the ways in which the manipulation of maps ... may affect cultural realities and how that culture perceives its spatial boundaries and the individuals within it'.
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Cartographic Conspiracies: Maps, Misinformation, and Exploitation in Peter Carey's 'American Dreams'
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