Literary Geography and Comparative Literature

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From Spatial Turn to GIS-Mapping of Literary Cultures

“…Collective works, such as Literary Cultures of Latin America , 27 History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe , 28 and A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula , 29 map cultural transfers, contacts, and inter-literary communities taking place in areas whose ‘entangled history’ 30 largely depends on some shared factors, such as geography, language, culture, religion, economy, or empire. As suggested by César Domínguez (referring to Wallerstein), these works address ‘geoliterature as a category which integrates and is the expression of the dialectic interrelation of territory, cultural spaces, and multiculturalisms.’ 31 Taking space as its organizing principle, historical discourse avoids aprioristic exclusions, nationalist ideologemes, and narrative schemes of unilinear causality. Having critically overcome methodological nationalism, literary history is thus able to explore extensive text material and other data testifying to complex, plurilingual, and multicultural literary developments on a particular territory.…”

“…Domínguez advises comparative literature to make use of literary geography and map histories of literatures with regard to linguistic maps and sociolinguistic findings (Ref. 31, pp. 3–4).…”