Carte blanche to Travel Narrative

Sara Bédard-Goulet
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The “spatial turn” in the humanities has pointed out how space is produced and how it is affected by power relations, while critical geography has identified the impact of these relations on cartographic representation of space. The presence of maps in travel narratives thus carries certain ideologies and influences the narratives. In Un livre blanc: récit avec cartes [ A Blank Book: Narrative with Maps ] (2007), contemporary French author Philippe Vasset attempts to describe the fifty blank spaces that he has noticed on the topographic map of Paris and its suburbs and visited over a one-year period. This article analyzes the major impact of maps on this narrative and the representation of space that it creates. Despite a direct experience of these “blank spaces”, the narrator is affected by a “cartographic performativity” that prompts him to treat space as a map, and he aims to write as a disembodied cartographer.
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人文学科中的“空间转向”指出了空间是如何产生的以及它是如何受到权力关系的影响的,而批判地理学则确定了这些关系对空间的制图表现的影响。因此,地图在旅行叙事中的存在承载着一定的意识形态,影响着叙事。在《空白之书:用地图叙事》(2007)一书中,当代法国作家菲利普·瓦塞特试图描述他在巴黎及其郊区地形图上注意到的50个空白区域,并在一年的时间里进行了考察。本文分析了地图对这种叙事的主要影响以及它所创造的空间表现。尽管对这些“空白空间”有直接的体验,叙述者还是受到了一种“制图表演性”的影响,这种表演性促使他把空间当作一张地图来对待,他的目标是作为一个无实体的制图师来写作。
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