Carto-fiction

Narrativising Maps Through Creative Writing

Bibliographic Data

ID3977296
AuthorsGiada Peterle (0000-0001-9574-531X, University of Padua, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume20
Issue8
Pages1070-1093
Publication date2019-10-13
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial & Cultural Geography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1464-9365 • E-ISSN: 1470-1197
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14649365.2018.1428820
OpenAlexW2792036024
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited51

This study reacts to the recent call for a narrativisation of maps’ life in post-representational cartography, proposing ‘cartographic fictional writing’ as a means to move geography’s ‘creative (re)turn’ from a placecentred to a ‘carto-centred’ perspective, and as an epistemological tool to go on rethinking maps from post-representational perspectives. First, ‘carto-fiction’ is defined as a self-reflexive (autoethnographic), ethnofictional, creative carto-centred product/practice of research. Second, by including the entire short story entitled ‘Unfolding Berlin’ and an autoethnographic account on how it emerged, this study strives to both theorise and perform carto-fictional writing as an embodied and trans-subjective mapping experience. My goal is to propose ‘carto-fiction’ as a prolific tool to let emotional, subjective cartographies emerge and to narrativise maps as mapping practices. The article further strives to focus on the mapping power of creative writing, and carto-fictional writing and reading will be interpreted as mapping performances, in which subjects are bodily and emotionally engaged. The inclusion of original illustrations aims to involve readers in a visual experience and to further stimulate their spatial imagination: each reader is asked to reflect on his/her own mapping experiences to interpret the fictional story and, thus, the paper itself attempts to unfold unpredicted creative cartographic practices

Aesthetics · Art · Creative writing · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Perspective (graphical · Power (physics · Reading (process · Reflexivity · Sociology · Visual arts · Anthropology · Geographic Information Systems Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Historical Geography and Geographical Thought · Philosophy

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