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Displacing the Dead – Remapping of Post-apocalyptic Geographies

To question space within gothic or horror narratives means attempting to understand the concept of the “failure of the map, ” a notion very closely related to the production of gothic narratives. Based on the premise that the “gothic map” can never be fully understood or grasped, gothic narratives invariably manage to manipulate and play upon the reader’s or viewer’s attempts to locate the narrator, protagonist, or to a certain extent themselves within the space at hand. Additional complications arise from the transitional moment between space and place. Following Yi Fu Tuan’s notion of this transition based on the process of inscribing meaning into space, thus opening the doors to literally countless forms of places, the gothic manages to constantly offer new narratives, or at

Human geography, zombies, The Walking Dead, Harvey, Bachelard, Auge

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