Dialogues with the Dead

Literary Geography’s Absent Authors and Distant Voices

Authors

  • James C. Thurgill The University of Tokyo

Keywords:

Literary geography, spectrality, ghosts, spectral geography

Abstract

Literary geography predominantly engages with the voices of the dead and the absent, framed by their historical geospatial origins, remote geographic settings, or languages of expression. This 'Thinking Space' essay outlines the complex spectral network of absent writers and distant voices which emerges from literary geographical research into temporally and spatially 'distant' texts.

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Published

2024-10-30 — Updated on 2024-10-31

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 2 (2024)

Section

Thinking Space

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