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The Spatial Turn in Literary Historiography

2011; Purdue University Press; Volume: 13; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.7771/1481-4374.1903

1481-4374

Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza,

Galician and Iberian cultural studies

In his article "The Spatial Turn in Literary Historiography," Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza examines the spatialization of literary history in recent years. He evaluates the resurgence of interest in literary geography and argues that the geographic dimension is not the only aspect of the predominant spatiality in new literary histories. Further, Cabo Aseguinolaza postulates that although the emphasis on spatiality marks many current literary histories, all literary histories imply spatial elements of different character and scope and that these options constitute an essential part of the performative capacity of history writing. In particular, Cabo Aseguinolaza discusses categories proposed by Henri Lefebvre in his La Production de l'espace (1974) and illustrates Lefebvre's notions with examples from Spanish scholarship.