Digital storytelling and performative memory: new approaches to the literary geography of the postcolonial city

Jordan, Spencer

Abstract

Drawing on the outcomes of a research project, this chapter argues that digital storytelling can play a fundamental role in the reconceptualization of the digitally-mediated geographies of the postcolonial city. The chapter argues that the interaction between walking and storytelling, incorporating aspects of augmented reality and ludic gameplay, can be considered a new form of performative mapping. In this way, the chapter shows how digital storytelling can make a significant and innovative contribution to the spatial representations of memory, and, through that, engage directly with a deeper need for ‘home’ and ‘belonging’.

Citation

Jordan, S. (2019). Digital storytelling and performative memory: new approaches to the literary geography of the postcolonial city. In Memory and postcolonial studies: synergies and new directions. Peter Lang International Academic Publishers

• Acceptance Date: Jun 1, 2018
• Publication Date: Feb 1, 2019
• Deposit Date: Nov 21, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Feb 2, 2020
• Publisher: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
• Book Title: Memory and postcolonial studies: synergies and new directions
• ISBN: 978-1-78874-478-2
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1164712
• Contract Date: Nov 21, 2018