My chapter ‘Looking for Loopholes: Cartography of Escape’
is out now in print in the publication Cartographies
of Exile: A New Spatial Literary, (Routledge, 2016).
About
the publication
This book proposes a fundamental
relationship between exile and mapping. It seeks to understand the cartographic
imperative inherent in the exilic condition, the exilic impulses fundamental to
mapping, and the varied forms of description proper to both. The vital intimacy
of the relationship between exile and mapping compels a new spatial literacy
that requires the cultivation of localized, dynamic reading practices attuned
to the complexities of understanding space as text and texts as spatial
artifacts. The collection asks: what kinds of maps do exiles make? How are they
conceived, drawn, read? Are they private maps or can they be shaped
collectively? What is their relationship to memory and history? How do maps
provide for new ways of imagining the fractured experience of exile and offer
up both new strategies for reading displacement and new displaced reading
strategies? Where does exilic mapping fit into a history of cartography,
particularly within the twentieth-century spatial turn?
More
here at Routledge.