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. (2018). Digital storytelling and performative memory: new approaches to the literary geography of the postcolonial city. In D. Göttsche (Ed.), Palgrave Handbook of Postcolonial and Memory Studies. Palgrave Macmillan

• Acceptance Date: Nov 1, 2017
• Publication Date: Nov 30, 2018
• Deposit Date: Dec 6, 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Book Title: Palgrave Handbook of Postcolonial and Memory Studies
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/950907
• Contract Date: Dec 4, 2017