Sonic Spectres
Word Ghosts in Madeleine Thien’s Dogs at the Perimeter and the Digital Map Project, ‘Fictional Montreal/Montréal fictif’
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22305441 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ceri Morgan (0000-0002-1104-2842, Keele University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | London Journal of Canadian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0267-2200 • E-ISSN: 2397-0928 |
| Publisher | UCL Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.14324/111.444.ljcs.2018v33.004 |
| OpenAlex | W2901202697 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 14 |
This article analyzes various ghosts and their connections with the unsaid and said in relation to Madeleine Thien’s Dogs at the Perimeter (2011) and the digital map project, ‘Fictional Montreal/Montréal fictif’ (Morgan and Lichti, 2016–17). Drawing on Jacques Derrida’s work on spectres, it suggests that Thien’s novel offers both negative and positive hauntings, by drawing attention to the far-reaching effects of the Cambodian genocide. It goes on to reflect on absence and presence, voice and body in relation to the digital map, which features recordings of authors reading extracts of their fiction set in Montréal. Arguing that ‘Fictional Montreal/Montréal fictif’ performs an interplay between material and imaginary geographies, the article proposes that the map offers the possibility of new conceptualizations of Montréal. In so doing, it argues that both it and Dogs at the Perimeter embrace the potentially utopian aspect of spectrality identified by Derrida. This is due to their encouraging readers to think about our collective responsibilities to each other in a world characterized by mobility and migration
Art · Art history · Cartography · Geography · Linguistics · Literature · Psychoanalysis · The Imaginary · Unsaid · Visual arts · Computer Science · French Urban and Social Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Migration and Exile Studies · Philosophy · Psychology
Ghostly Matters
Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Exploring the literary map
Affect – an ethnocentric encounter? Exploring the ‘universalist’ imperative of emotional/affectual geographies
Intensities of feeling
After or beyond feeling? A consideration of affect and emotion in geography
Do Not Say We Have Nothing
Urban Rhythms
Mundane hauntings
Deleuze and the Anthropology of Becoming
What we talk about when we talk about 'walking in the city'1
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |