Carte blanche to Travel Narrative

Philippe Vasset’s Un livre blanc

Dados Bibliográficos

ID21719617
AutoresSara Bédard-Goulet (0000-0002-7966-8569, University of Tartu, Estonia [email protected], autor correspondente)
Ano2021
Volume22
Fascículo1
Páginas39-55
Data de publicação2021-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJourneys (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1465-2609 • E-ISSN: 1752-2358
EditoraBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3167/jys.2021.220103
OpenAlexW3188819045
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas17

The “spatial turn” in the humanities has pointed out how space is produced and how it is affected by power relations, while critical geography has identified the impact of these relations on cartographic representation of space. The presence of maps in travel narratives thus carries certain ideologies and influences the narratives. In Un livre blanc: récit avec cartes [ A Blank Book: Narrative with Maps ] (2007), contemporary French author Philippe Vasset attempts to describe the fifty blank spaces that he has noticed on the topographic map of Paris and its suburbs and visited over a one-year period. This article analyzes the major impact of maps on this narrative and the representation of space that it creates. Despite a direct experience of these “blank spaces”, the narrator is affected by a “cartographic performativity” that prompts him to treat space as a map, and he aims to write as a disembodied cartographer

Aesthetics · Art · Blank · Cartography · Geography · Ideology · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Performativity · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Engineering · Gender Studies · Historical Geography and Geographical Thought · History · Philosophy · Religious Tourism and Spaces · Travel Writing and Literature