Cartographies of Exile: A New Spatial Literacy

302 Pages·2016·4.256 MB·English

by  Karen Elizabeth Bishop (ed.)

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Cartographies of Exile
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n Cartographies of Exile is a timely, fascinating, and important new collection
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history and future, its functions, tools, and media?
The original work that makes up this interdisciplinary collection presents
a varied look at the cartographic strategies employed in writing, art, and film
from the pre-Contact Americas to the Renaissance to late postmodernism;
the effects of exile, in its many manifestations, on cartographic textual sys-
tems, ways of seeing, and forms of reading; the challenges of traversing and
mapping unstable landscapes and restrictive social and political networks;
and the difficulties and felicities of giving into the map or attempting to
escape the map that provides for exile in the first place. The vital intimacy of
the relationship between exile and mapping, this volume proposes, compels
a new spatial literacy that requires the cultivation of localized, dynamic read-
ing practices attuned to the complexities of understanding space as text and
texts as spatial artifacts. Throughout, Cartographies of Exile comments on
the various epistemological displacements that map-making depends upon
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Literature, History, Modernity A New Spatial Literacy
Edited by Jernej Habjan and Edited by Karen Elizabeth
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Contents
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n List of Figures xi
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1 Acknowledgments xiii
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: Introduction: The Cartographical Necessity of Exile 1
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6 Isabella Stewart Gardner’s “Barbarous Barbaro”:
Fenway Court As Exilic Map and Liberation Cartography 133
PAUL FISHER