Spatiality and the Cartographic Perspective in Ezzedine Fishere's Embrace on Brooklyn Bridge, Randa Jarrar's A Map of Home, Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss and Son'allah Ibrahim's Amricanly: A Comparative Study | ||
| مجلة بحوث کلية الآداب . جامعة المنوفية | ||
| Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 09 July 2024 | ||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/sjam.2024.293489.2328 | ||
| Author | ||
| حمادة أنور محمود محمد السجيني* | ||
| كلية الآداب شبين الكوم - جامعة المنوفية | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The study attempts to investigate the implications of refrentiality of the real world and its representation in literary works. It tries to pinpoint the relationship between the "geo space" and the "textual space'', the "textual world" and the "factual world''. There has been a persistent tendency to use modern cartography in order to depict the historical struggle between the colonizer and the colonized. Space must be given much more attention as an important component of the struggle. The study seeks to reevaluate the narrative mappings. The study seeks to show how people tend to draw conceptual maps of spaces and how they relate them to their experiences and cultures. It depends on geocriticism's main idea that in literature, we depict and design maps of our own world, and these maps are not less accurate or less complex than the traditional maps. Moreover, the study relates the ideas of spatiality and literary cartography to the main tenets of postcolonialism in order to revisit the relationship between the colonizer and the colonized. It aims to scrutinize how the geocentric features of space and narrative mappings are linked to the dynamics of culture and imperialism. Ezzedine Fishere's Embrace on Brooklyn Bridge (2011), Randa Jarrar's A Map of Home (2008), Keran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss (2006) and Son'allah Ibrahim's Amricanly (2003) are four novels selected to discuss issues of spatiality, literary cartography, cultural hybridity, alienation and dislocation. The study represents a new geocritical reading of the themes of postcolonialism. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Geocriticism; Literary Cartography; Spatiality | ||
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