Theorizing maps with literature

The long superficial engagement of literary scholars with the cartographic lexicon (under the label of literary‘spatial turn’) has led to a need for a ‘recartographization’ of the field. This tendency, however, still remainsprimarily embedded within analytical (‘cartography of literature’) or critical (‘critical literary cartography’)approaches, and fails to engage the recent development of post-representational rethinking of maps. Literarycriticism, with its creative use of mapping words, and, above all, literary texts, with their involvement of practisingmaps, should be reconsidered as relevant sources for cartographic theorization and mapping research