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Comic Book Cartographies: A Cartocentred Reading of 'City of Glass', the Graphic Novel
No full textThis paper responds to the call for a deeper theoretical and methodological
exchange between the disciplines involved in geohumanities research and
proposes comic books as an environment for interdisciplinary,
geo/cartographical and literary critical research practice. The analysis
considers the emerging field of ‘comic book geographies’ and suggests a
further opening to ‘comic book cartographies’. Hence, by referring to the
‘spatiocentred’ approaches emerging in literary theory and criticism, I
propose a ‘geocritical’ and ‘cartocentred’ reading of comics to explore the
‘cartographies of the comic book’. I individuate the peculiar map-like
features of comics’ spatial grammar to interpret the comic book as both a
cartographer and a map. Moreover, taking into account the recent shift in
cartographic theory towards an ‘emergent cartography’, I propose an
‘ontogenetic’ understanding of comics as maps. Through both their
representational and non-representational, map-like features, comics are
intended ‘as always mappings’, providing the author/reader with a truly
mapping experience. The analysis of the exemplary case study of City of
Glass, the graphic novel transposition of Auster’s novel by Paul Karasik and
David Mazzucchelli, counts as a first attempt to propose a ‘cartocentred’
reading of the cartographies inserted within and emerging from a comic
book. This article suggests that a ‘cartocritical’ reading of comics could
provide comic studies, cultural geography and literary theory with new
insights, as well as cartographic theory with an unexplored laboratory to
keep on ‘rethinking maps’ from an ‘emergent’ perspective
Teaching Cartography with Comics: Some Examples from BeccoGiallo’s Graphic Novel Series
Full text linkThis article suggests the use of comics, particularly of graphic novels, as valuable instructional tools for teaching cartography. Of particular interest is the idea that comics can be used to develop students’ geographical competencies, their ability to think actively about cartographical issues, and their capacity to interact with “maps as mappings” (Dodge, Kitchin and Perkins, 2009). The theoretical references used to conduct the deep interdisciplinary proposal and analysis include: the growing field of literary cartography, recent post-representational theories in cartography, and the emerging field of “comic book geography” (Dittmer, 2014). The article reads comics as maps and analyzes their map-like features to demonstrate that both maps and comics ask the reader-user to be actively engaged to decipher, orient, and practice them. Proposing to read “maps as comics”, “maps of comics”, “maps and mappings in comics”, and “comics as maps and mappings”, the article suggests the possible practical employment of comics in cartography classes. Furthermore, this study uses examples from BeccoGiallo’s comic series to demonstrate that graphic novels may help students become more aware map readers and users, by being involved in an active spatial practice. Finally, this article focuses on the unexplored educational potential of graphic novels by exploring the improvement of students’ understanding of post-representational cartographical approaches through comic use
Performing the literary map: 'towards the river mouth' following Gianni Celati
No full textThis article retreads our geographic and literary performance in March 2015, following, almost 30 years later, the traces of Gianni Celati’s travel diaries Verso la foce (‘Towards the River Mouth’) through the Po River Delta, in Northeastern Italy. In our reading of Celati’s text and during our 2-days performance, we decided to ‘go along’ the Po River, considered as a ‘liquid chronotope’ that discloses and shapes a geographic and narrative ‘liquid landscape’. We moved ‘from text to action’ and, interpreting literary maps ‘as always mappings’, we performed the ‘implicit map’ that emerges from Celati’s travel diaries. The purpose of the article is to re-activate the geographic understandings of Po River Delta’s waterscape: through our performance, we aimed to re-read Celati’s literary/geographical observations for interpreting the transformations of this peculiar Italian landscape. Moreover, the perspective of a photographer enhances the narration of the performance to open up the reader..
Page and place: ongoing compositions of plot
No full textWith Page and Place: Ongoing Compositions of Plot and Literary Geographies: Narrative Space in
‘Let The Great World Spin’, Jon Anderson and Sheila Hones contribute to the (re)emerging interdisciplinary
field of literary geography..
Attraversamenti (peri)urbani: Una lettura geocritica mobile di Riportando tutto a casa di Nicola Lagioia e L’ubicazione del bene di Giorgio Falco
No full textOrientarsi tra le nuvole: cartografie, atlanti e pratiche mappanti nel racconto a fumetti
Full text linkA partire dalla recente nascita della ‘comic book geography’ (Dittmer 2014), il contributo intende proporre la ‘comic book cartography’ come un’ulteriore linea di ricerca volta ad esplorare le contaminazioni tra fumetto e cartografia.
L’approccio transdisciplinare proposto si fonda sull’intersezione tra geografia e analisi geocritica, tra ‘comics studies’ e teoria cartografica post-rappresentazionale. Attraverso una lettura ‘carto-centrata’ di alcuni casi di studio italiani e internazionali, il fumetto viene inteso come una mappa che coinvolge autore e lettore in una vera e propria pratica di orientamento.
[Abstract eng] Orientating among the balloons: maps, atlases and mapping practices in comic books
Starting from the recently emerged field of ‘comic book geography’ (Dittmer 2014), the article proposes ‘comic book cartography’ as a further research line to explore the intersections bewteen comics and cartography.
The proposed transdisciplinary approach is based on the encounter between geography and geocriticism, comics studies and post-representational theories in cartography. Through a ‘carto-centred’ reading of both Italian and international case studies, the comic book is interpreted as a map inolving author and reader in an orientation practice
‘Leggere’, ‘Scrivere’, ‘Abitare’: Proposte di Ricerca e Didattica tra Geografia e Letteratura
No full textPercorrere la Città di vetro di Paul Auster: lo spazio urbano postmoderno tra romanzo e graphic novel
Full text linkNell’idea di ‘percorso interpretativo’ si nascondono due anime distinte e al contempo
inseparabili l’una dall’altra: l’interpretazione, che studia i segni e il linguaggio del romanzo
urbano, leggendone il testo; ma anche il percorso, che avvicina il lettore alla possibilità
di attraversare il testo come fosse uno spazio e che rimanda, inoltre, alla metafora del
bivio, alla necessità della scelta che ogni atto d’interpretazione sottende. Rispetto alle
altre strade, questo saggio non si propone quindi quale ‘strada maestra’, ma quale percorso
possibile tra i tanti svincoli e intersezioni, tra le arterie principali e le vie secondarie
davanti a cui il romanzo sulla città pone il suo lettore.
Il discorso prosegue lineare, talvolta si incastra nel dedalo di strade e vicoli ciechi, tra
le personalità incontrate e i loro riflessi; talvolta, girato l’angolo, incontra piazze in cui
riprendere fiato. Si sofferma, allora, nel tentativo di tracciare una mappa del testo, e ripercorrere
così il senso dello spazio in esso attraversato. Sono brevi pause però, perché il
motivo del percorso non è nel suo tracciato, ma è il camminare stesso dell’interpretazione
lungo le linee del testo
Moving Literature: the Car as a ‘Mobile Chronotope’ in Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis
No full textThe car as a “mobile chronotope”: Automobility as everyday urban practice in Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis. - The car has become a material referent for a new way of living in, going through, experiencing and even representing the city. Starting from the emerging field of inter-disciplinary studies on mobility (Cresswell, Sheller, Urry, Thrift, Featherstone), in this article I combine the sociological and geographical perspectives on urbanity with the “geocritical approach” (Westphal Prieto) on literary urban texts. With the renowned novel Cosmopolis by DeLillo as a case study, this paper aims to grasp the dynamics that shape a new representation of the city around the transiting spaces of automobility. It also suggests a further advancement of “geocriticism” by focusing on the central topic of spatial practices. DeLillo’s novel will be taken as an example of how the evolution of automobility as a major everyday practice has influenced urban narratives. Not only the car as a “mobile chronotope” has modified the architecture of the plot, replacing the traditional one of the road; but even the protagonist Eric Packer, as a “postmodern urban flâneur”, represents the new “literary type” (Eco) of the car driver. Therefore the article argues to demonstrate how a geocritical reading of spatial practices can be extremely profitable for the development of new spatial knowings both in literary theory and in cultural geography
Refiguring Italian Cultural Quarters: 'Il Ghetto di Venezia. 500 anni di vita' (film by Emanuela Giordano, 2015) and 'Primavere e Autunni' (Graphic novel by Ciaj Rocchi and Matteo Demonte, 2015)
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