Cartographies of Exile: A New Spatial Literacy

ISBN-13: 9780367868680 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 286 str.

Karen Elizabeth Bishop

Opis

This volume investigates 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 i

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.