Journal of Chaohu University ›› 2023, Vol. 25 ›› Issue (5): 120-126.doi: 10.12152/j.issn.1672-2868.2023.05.015

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Finding Directions in Disorientation: The Literary Cartography in Journey to the Stone Country

ZHU Di-ting,ZHAN Chun-juan:School of Foreign Studies, Anhui University   

  1. School of Foreign Studies, Anhui University, Hefei Anhui 230601
  • Received:2023-08-28 Online:2023-09-25 Published:2024-04-08

Abstract: Journey to the Stone Country is a reconciliation novel by Australian author Alex Miller. Unlike other forms of reconciliation novels, the author bridges the gap between the whites and indigenous people through Literary Cartography, expressing the desire of contemporary Australian white society to seek harmonious coexistence with indigenous people. The Literary Cartography in this novel is mainly manifested at three levels: geographical cartography, cultural cartography and cognitive cartography. It depicts the cultural and practical difficulties of the indigenous society from three perspectives of the whole and parts, tangibility and intangibility, individual and group, which enhances the communication and understanding between white people and indigenous people. It can also help Australians to directly face the history and the past and overcome the sense of dislocation and anxiety in the society through the "imaginative cartography".

Key words: Journey to the Stone Country, literary cartography, racial reconciliation, Alex Miller

CLC Number: 

  • I106.4