Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Aritha van Herk’s Places Far from Ellesmere is informed by the contrary dynamics of the centripetal forces of “emplacement” as “entextment”, and the centrifugal drive of dis-location striving to eschew textual and territorial enclosure. Taking its cue from the author’s suggestion that her text is “a map masquerading as a book”, this paper proposes to examine how she unsettles the traditional definition of place to write unmappable, unfixed and unfixing geografictione.
DOI: 10.35562/rma.1351
Author: Anne-Sophie Letessier
Institutions: Université Jean Monnet, Université Jean Monnet
Language: English
Topic: Spatial and Cultural Studies
Subfield: Geography, Planning and Development
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4411713081