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Reconfigurations of Geography and Historical Narrative: A Review Essay

Reconfigurations of Geography and Historical Narrative: A Review Essay As we begin the last decade of this centmy we may have no better terms to describe our worldly activities than those which refer us to the atlas. Maps and borders are provocative metaphors. Yet, the recourse to the language of geographers is not accidental. Certainly there are many terms circulating today that signify an attention to geography in cultural studies. Mikhail Bakhtin’s “chronotope,” Benedict Anderson’s “imagined communities,” Gloria Anzaldba’s “borderlands,” Emily Hicks’ “border writing,” Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s “detemtorialization,” and Edward Said’s l “traveling theory” al invoke spatial or geographical metaphors. Balchtin’s notion of “chronotope” provides an important deconstruction of the conventional opposition of time and space in Western culture. The fusion of time and space in literary expression that Bakhtin identifies in the “chronotope” appears to challenge the order outlined by Edward Soja in his recent work, Postmodern Geographies. Soja argues that the models we have inherited from the nineteenth century pose space and time as unequal opposites, with temporal explanations more privileged than spatial ones. Soja urges us to demystify representations of space as inert and undynamic Vol. 3. No. 1: Fall 1990 and time as fluid and dialectical. The alternative he proposes is http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Public Culture Duke University Press

Reconfigurations of Geography and Historical Narrative: A Review Essay

Kaplan, Caren
Public Culture , Volume 3 (1) – Oct 1, 1990
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Copyright 1990 by Duke University Press
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As we begin the last decade of this centmy we may have no better terms to describe our worldly activities than those which refer us to the atlas. Maps and borders are provocative metaphors. Yet, the recourse to the language of geographers is not accidental. Certainly there are many terms circulating today that signify an attention to geography in cultural studies. Mikhail Bakhtin’s “chronotope,” Benedict Anderson’s “imagined communities,” Gloria Anzaldba’s “borderlands,” Emily Hicks’ “border writing,” Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s “detemtorialization,” and Edward Said’s l “traveling theory” al invoke spatial or geographical metaphors. Balchtin’s notion of “chronotope” provides an important deconstruction of the conventional opposition of time and space in Western culture. The fusion of time and space in literary expression that Bakhtin identifies in the “chronotope” appears to challenge the order outlined by Edward Soja in his recent work, Postmodern Geographies. Soja argues that the models we have inherited from the nineteenth century pose space and time as unequal opposites, with temporal explanations more privileged than spatial ones. Soja urges us to demystify representations of space as inert and undynamic Vol. 3. No. 1: Fall 1990 and time as fluid and dialectical. The alternative he proposes is

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Published: Oct 1, 1990

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