Mapping Reality: An Exploration of Cultural Cartographies

Arguing that maps create rather than merely represent the ground on which they rest, King (English and American studies, U. of Sussex) urges a deconstruction of the opposition between map and territory to allow dominant mappings to be challenged and redrawn. He points out features in the history of cartography; mappings of culture, sexuality, and nation; the colonial settlement of America; the Cold War; Vietnam; and the events since the collapse of the Soviet block. No maps or other illustrations. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.