Seeking the Centre The Australian Desert in Literature, Art and Film

"'Every eye sees differently. As the Eye, such the Object' is the apt introductory epigraph to an analysis, in the predominantly post-structural mode, of the manifold 'views' of the Australian desert, of the ways in which it has affected the national psyche, both as a geographical reality and as the country's mythological crucible. It begins with a brief, elegant overview of what is now understood of the immensely complex relationship between Aborigines and their land. It ends with a comparison between traditional Aboriginal art...and Western art....In between these bracketing chapters is a rich grab-bag of references to the desert--books, paintings, poems, films--culled from 200 years of European history in Australia."Haynes, Roslynn D. is the author of 'Seeking the Centre The Australian Desert in Literature, Art and Film' with ISBN 9780521571111 and ISBN 0521571111.