![]() ![]() ![]() Mapping the Labyrinth: Twentieth-Century Cartography and the City - Cognitive Mapping and the City - Walter Benjamin and the Flâneur: 1920–1940 - The International Situationists: 1952–1972 - Cognitive Mapping: Kevin Lynch and Fredric Jameson - The City and the Map in Later-Twentieth-Century Literature - De Certeau and Spatial Stories - Michel Butor's Passing Time - Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities - Michael Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion 4. Subjectivity: The Cartographer as Nomad - Subjective Accounts: Enlightenment Theories of Subjectivity and the Critique of Cartesianism - Nomadic Subjectivity - Nomadic Cartography/Nomadic Art - Nomadic Fictions - The Desert: Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient - The Steppe: Milorad Pavić's Dictionary of the Khazars - The Sea: Jeanette Winterson's Sexing the Cherry 3. A Genealogy of Cartography, a Genealogy of Space - Genealogy–Archaeology and the Spatializing of History - Maps of Modernity: Cartography as a Science - Medieval Mapping - Renaissance Mapping - Enlightenment Mapping - Imperial Mapping and the Postcolonial - "Postmodern" Cartographies 2. Contents: Introduction: Text–Map–Metaphor - Postmodern Metaphor - Postmodern Text - Postmodern Cartography - Text–Map–Metaphor 1. ![]() Cartographic Strategies of Postmodernity charts this metamorphosis of cartographic metaphor, and argues that the ongoing reworking of the map metaphor renders it a formative and performative metaphor of postmodernity. This metamorphosis draws together poststructuralist conceptualizations of epistemology, textuality, cartography, and metaphor, and signals a shift away from modernist preoccupations with temporality and objectivity to a postmodern pragmatics of spatiality and subjectivity. While the map metaphor has been employed for centuries to highlight issues of textual representation and epistemology, the map metaphor itself has undergone a transformation in the postmodern era. References to mapping and cartography are endemic in poststructuralist theory, and, similarly, geographically and culturally diverse authors of twentieth-century fiction seem fixated upon mapping. The last fifty years have witnessed the growing pervasiveness of the figure of the map in critical, theoretical, and fictional discourse. ![]()
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