Cartographies of Exile: A New Spatial Literacy

ISBN-13: 9780415714860 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 286 str.

Karen Elizabeth Bishop

Opis

This volume seeks to understand the cartographical imperative inherent in exile, investigating the relationship between exile understood broadly to include external and internal exile, diaspora, deterritorialization, reterritorialization, expatriation, migrants, refugees, nomads, and the forcibly disappeared and map-making. Mapping is a certain science that enables emplacement and facilitates movement; yet it is also an aesthetic project that draws on a heightened awareness of space and place, memory, and political and historical imaginaries.

This collection explores a number of key questions, such as: what kind of maps do exiles make, and how are they conceived? How do maps provide new ways of thinking about the experience of exile and our changing reading practices? How do authors writing in or about exile represent the doubly ontological and epistemological exercise of map-making? How might a cartographical necessity of exile challenge how we conceive of mapping, its history and future, its function, tools, and media?

This book's contributors come from a wide variety of interdisciplinary backgrounds, including literary and cultural studies, art history and architecture, the plastic arts, film and visual studies, and the digital humanities. The Cartographical Necessity of Exile reveals the overwhelming importance of agency in exile that map-making facilitates, and the epistemological displacement that map-making depends upon, to build the known world."

Spis treści

Introduction: The Cartographical Necessity of Exile Karen Elizabeth Bishop  Part I: Exilic Textualities  1 A Cartography of the Uncertain: The Maya Textual Exile Nathan C. Henne  2 A Cartography of Exile: Du Bellay’s France, mere des arts Tom Conley  3 Handprints: The Cartographic Vision of Mirta Kupferminc  Amy Kaminsky  Part II Geographies of Displacement  4 Traverse, Territory and the Ecological Uncanny: James Rennell and the Mapping of the Gangetic Plains Swati Chattopadhyay  5 Shackle, Sycamore, Shibboleth: Material Geographies of the Underground Railroad Tom Nurmi  6 Isabella Stewart Gardner’s "Barbarous Barbaro": Fenway Court as Exilic Map and Liberation Cartography Paul Fisher  Part III Lyric Exile  7 Cold War Exile and the Longing for Non-State Refuge: John Ashbery’s American School in Paris Richard Cole  8 Lost Between Past and Future: Mario Benedetti’s Geography of Return Frans Weiser Part IV Escaping the Map  9 Stateless Cartography in Eric Ambler’s Novels: Escape Routes at the Edges of Legality Christian B. Long  10 Art of the Invisible: Drone Warfare, Rendition, and the Black Sites of Justice Georgiana Banita  11 Looking for Loopholes: The Cartography of Escape Emma Cocker  Coda: The Cartographic Ethics of Exile Karen Elizabeth Bishop

O autorze

Karen Elizabeth Bishop is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA. Selected publications include work in the Journal of Modern Literature, the Journal of Transnational American Studies, Translation Review, and the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians.