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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 Bakhtinâs âchronotope,â Benedict Andersonâs âimagined communities,â Gloria Anzaldbaâs âborderlands,â Emily Hicksâ âborder writing,â Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattariâs âdetemtorialization,â and Edward Saidâs l âtraveling theoryâ al invoke spatial or geographical metaphors. Balchtinâs notion of âchronotopeâ 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 âchronotopeâ 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
Public Culture – Duke University Press
Published: Oct 1, 1990
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