本文旨在探討西方空間再現形式與澳大利亞原住民地圖學論述(cartographic discourses)間的辯證關係，並進一步討論兩者是否有雜揉交混的可能。本文援 引當代理論一一如後殖民性、後結構理論、地圖學以及空間知識論等，來閱讀大衛﹒馬睦夫於1994出版的小說《追憶巴比倫»;主張非主流的觀點在殖民主義一元化的論述脈絡下，只能被禁制，而馬睦夫的小說則是對當代關於國家及真實性辯論的重要介入。

This paper explores the dialectic between Western modes of spatial representation and the cartographic discourses of Australia’s indigenous peoples, and the possibility for a hybridised conflation of the two. A theoretical reading—drawing upon contemporary theories of postcoloniality, poststructuralism, cartography and spatial epistemology—of David Malouf’s 1994 novel Remembering Babylon is offered in support of the assertion that the monolithic discourse of colonialism necessitates the suppression of alternative perspectives, and that Malouf’s fiction constitutes an essential intervention in contemporary debates regarding nationhood and authenticity.