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Space Place Identity

Intro

  • What matter is not space, but place: space given meaning
  • You can “rewrite” places from their “unrecognized spatial substratum” (in Territorial Terrors 5 by Gerhard Stiltz, who has justified study of literature in space by saying it’s distinctive b/c of its plurality in which you can find “liberating, alternative” ways of looking at space and thus “probe…established realities:” 5 A “sanction-free realm” but of course you must avoid the literary solipsism of staying w/in the text
    • he says don’t be fooled: after all the paradigm for re-writing space is colonialization