Cartographic Strategies of Postmodernity: The Figure of the Map in Contemporary Theory and Fiction

By Peta Mitchell

Book Overview

Charting the use of cartographic metaphor in postmodern literature and theory, Mitchell 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415809126
• ISBN13: 9780415809122
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"