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Creative Facticity and 'Hyper-Archaeology': the Spatial and Performative Textualities of Psychogeography (2021)
Book Chapter
Jordan, S. (2021). Creative Facticity and 'Hyper-Archaeology': the Spatial and Performative Textualities of Psychogeography. In Writing Remains New Intersections of Archaeology, Literature and Science (95-116). London: Bloomsbury Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350109490.ch-004

The chapter examines the interdependencies between fiction and archaeology through the analysis of psychogeography, a broad and ever expanding genre that mixes archaeological and historical fact with fiction. Critical to this analysis is an understan... Read More about Creative Facticity and 'Hyper-Archaeology': the Spatial and Performative Textualities of Psychogeography.

“Totaled City”: The Postdigital Textualities of Ben Lerner’s 10:04 (2020)
Book Chapter
Jordan, S. (2021). “Totaled City”: The Postdigital Textualities of Ben Lerner’s 10:04. In A. Evans, & K. Kramer (Eds.), Time, the City, and the Literary Imagination. London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55961-8

The chapter argues that Ben Lerner’s 10:04 is a response to the new ontological condition of metamodernism. Not only is 10:04 deliberately playful in its mash-up of fiction and autobiography; it also encapsulates extreme levels of anxiety concerning... Read More about “Totaled City”: The Postdigital Textualities of Ben Lerner’s 10:04.

Making Manhattan: urban hieroglyphics, patternings and tattoos in Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart' (1843) and Herman Melville's Moby Dick (1851) (2019)
Book Chapter
Jordan, S. (2019). Making Manhattan: urban hieroglyphics, patternings and tattoos in Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart' (1843) and Herman Melville's Moby Dick (1851). In K. Cox, & K. Watson (Eds.), Tattoos in Crime and Detective Narratives: Marking and Re-marking. Manchester University Press

In detective fiction, the city has often been represented as an arena of signs and secrets, what Laura Marcus has called ‘urban hieroglyphics’. Through the analysis of two literary works, this essay discusses how tattoos and patterning within detect... Read More about Making Manhattan: urban hieroglyphics, patternings and tattoos in Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart' (1843) and Herman Melville's Moby Dick (1851).

Digital storytelling and performative memory: new approaches to the literary geography of the postcolonial city (2018)
Book Chapter
Jordan, S. (in press). Digital storytelling and performative memory: new approaches to the literary geography of the postcolonial city. In Memory and postcolonial studies: synergies and new directions

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 interactio... Read More about Digital storytelling and performative memory: new approaches to the literary geography of the postcolonial city.

Digital storytelling and performative memory: new approaches to the literary geography of the postcolonial city (2017)
Book Chapter
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

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 interactio... Read More about Digital storytelling and performative memory: new approaches to the literary geography of the postcolonial city.