{"product_id":"position-doubtful-mapping-landscapes-and-memories-1","title":"Position Doubtful: mapping landscapes and memories","description":"SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 VICTORIAN PREMIER’S LITERARY AWARDS FOR NON-FICTION\nThis is a beautiful exploration of friendships and landscape and the complexities of black and white relations in contemporary Australia.\nImagine the document you have before you is not a book but a map. It is well-used, creased, and folded, so that when you open it, no matter how carefully, something tears and a line that is neither latitude nor longitude opens in the hidden geography of the place you are about to enter.\nSince the publication of her prize-winning memoir, Craft for a Dry Lake, in 2000, writer and artist Kim Mahood has been returning to the Tanami desert country in far north-western Australia where, as a child, she lived with her family on a remote cattle station. The land is timeless, but much has changed: the station has been handed back to its traditional owners; the mining companies have arrived; and Aboriginal art has flourished.\nComedy and tragedy, familiarity and uncertainty are Mahood’s constant companions as she immerses herself in the life of a small community and in groundbreaking mapping projects. What emerges in Position Doubtful is a revelation of the significance of the land to its people―and of the burden of history.\nMahood is an artist of astonishing versatility. She works with words, with paint, with installations, and with performance art. Her writing about her own work and collaborations, and about the work of the desert artists, is profoundly enlightening, making palpable the link between artist and country.\nThis is a beautiful and intense exploration of friendships, landscape, and homecoming. Written with great energy and humour, Position Doubtful offers a unique portrait of the complexities of black and white relations in contemporary Australia.\nPRAISE FOR KIM MAHOOD\n“[Mahood] is a talented writer whose mastery of the language is absolute. The combination of an artist’s eye, a mapmaker’s precision, and a wordsmith’s playfulness makes for a work of captivating beauty…a significant and timely work.”\n―The Weekend Australian\n“An extraordinary excavation of the relationship, past and present, between settlers and indigenous Australians, deeply grounded in this alluring tract of desert, but with relevance for us all.”\n―The Monthly\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1925321681\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: RDV.1925321681.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Mahood, Kim\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: This book is in good condition with very minimal damage. Pages may have minimal notes or highlighting. Cover image on the book may vary from photo. Ships out quickly in a secure plastic mailer.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Reliant Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47822585594033,"sku":"RDV.1925321681.G","price":9.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0544\/8872\/7729\/files\/1925321681-0_87cb2a42-7de9-4f54-82ff-8b6733fe082d.jpg?v=1786047486","url":"https:\/\/www.reliantbookstore.com\/products\/position-doubtful-mapping-landscapes-and-memories-1","provider":"Reliant Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}