Decolonial Deep Mapping (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781009491846)

Deep maps capture complex relationships to place and help trace the relationship between the abstract spaces of traditional maps and the cultural and literary history of the places that they represent. Using early modern Ireland as a template, this Element explores how deep-mapping techniques and a decolonial data ethic can be used to assemble a more culturally and linguistically representative archive and create more inclusive literary histories. It shows how deep mapping can disrupt colonial teleology and counter the monophone (and, specifically, anglophone) colonial record by bringing the long-neglected voices of the colonised back into the conversation. In doing so, it recovers a pre-conquest cultural vibrancy which colonisation, the language shift from Irish to English, and scholarly inattention successively occluded. More broadly, it offers a model for engaging with decolonial literary deep maps by developing reading strategies for 'juxtapuntal' reading that has the potential to decolonise the canon.

Author: Patricia Palmer, Evan Bourke, Philip Mac A' Ghoill
ISBN-10: 1009491849
ISBN-13: 9781009491846
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/14/2025
Pages: 88
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d