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Forcing the boundaries of genre: the imaginative geography of South America in Luis Sepulveda's Patagonia Express
Author(s) -
Tavares David,
Le Bel PierreMathieu
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
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Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1475-4762
pISSN - 0004-0894
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-4762.2007.00777.x
Subject(s) - representation (politics) , space (punctuation) , product (mathematics) , literary genre , forcing (mathematics) , sociology , literature , art , politics , linguistics , political science , philosophy , law , geometry , mathematics , climatology , geology
This article considers how literary genre conditions the influence of imaginative geographies on textual representations of place and space. Focusing on a central case study, it argues that the representation of South America in Luis Sepulveda's popular travelogue Patagonia Express is the product of interplay between two competing forces: the boundaries imposed by the travelogue genre and a widely‐circulated imaginative geography of South America as a space where ‘the fantastic’ or magical is inherent to everyday reality.