The last fifty years have witnessed the growing pervasiveness of
the figure of the map in critical, theoretical, and fictional
discourse. References to mapping and cartography are endemic in
poststructuralist theory, and, similarly, geographically and
culturally diverse authors of twentieth-century fiction seem
fixated upon mapping. While the map metaphor has been employed for
centuries to highlight issues of textual representation and
epistemology, the map metaphor itself has undergone a
transformation in the postmodern era. This metamorphosis draws
together poststructuralist conceptualizations of epistemology,
textuality, cartography, and metaphor, and signals a shift away
from modernist preoccupations with temporality and objectivity to a
postmodern pragmatics of spatiality and subjectivity. Cartographic
Strategies of Postmodernity charts this metamorphosis of
cartographic metaphor, and argues that the ongoing reworking of the
map metaphor renders it a formative and performative metaphor of
postmodernity.
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