Abstract
This article presents the foundations of the movement initiated by the International Institute of Geopoetics. The transdisciplinary dimension of this field of research and creation, founded by Kenneth White in 1989, as well as the predominance of certain principles such as nomadism, the outside world and radical criticism, bring together several concerns specific to the travel narrative, located at the intersection of literature and geography. The geopoetic approach opens up reflection both on the poetic pole, i.e. the intrinsic relationship between the journey experienced and the writing of the journey, and on the reading pole, which implies taking into consideration the reader’s subjectivity and his own relationship to the world. The examination of some of the accounts of Isabelle Eberhardt’s “Writings from the Sand” (belonging to Swiss, French and North African literature) provides an opportunity to explore various important geopoetic concepts such as landscape, polysensoriality and movement.
Recommended Citation
Bouvet, Rachel and Bergeron, Myriam
(2019)
"A geopoetic approach to travel narrative,"
SOROUD: The journal of Literacy Criticism: Vol. 2:
Iss.
1, Article 9.
https://doi.org/10.66499/6771-2605.1156
Available at:
https://scholarhub.univh2c.ma/soroud/vol2/iss1/9