This volume investigates the relationship between exile - understood broadly to include external and internal exile, diaspora, deterritorialization, reterritorialization, expatriation, migrants, refugees, nomads, and the forcibly 'disappeared' - and map-making. Mapping is a certain science that enables emplacement and facilitates movement; yet it is also an aesthetic project that draws on a heightened awareness of space and place, memory, and political and historical imaginaries. This book reveals the overwhelming importance of agency in exile that map-making facilitates, and the epistemological displacement that map-making depends upon, to build the known world.

Karen Elizabeth Bishop is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA. Selected publications include work in the Journal of Modern Literature, the Journal of Transnational American Studies, Translation Review, and the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians.

Introduction: The Cartographical Necessity of Exile Karen Elizabeth Bishop Part I: Exilic Textualities 1 A Cartography of the Uncertain: The Maya Textual Exile Nathan C. Henne 2 A Cartography of Exile: Du Bellay's France, mere des arts Tom Conley 3 Handprints: The Cartographic Vision of Mirta Kupferminc Amy Kaminsky Part II Geographies of Displacement 4 Traverse, Territory and the Ecological Uncanny: James Rennell and the Mapping of the Gangetic Plains Swati Chattopadhyay 5 Shackle, Sycamore, Shibboleth: Material Geographies of the Underground Railroad Tom Nurmi 6 Isabella Stewart Gardner's "Barbarous Barbaro": Fenway Court as Exilic Map and Liberation Cartography Paul Fisher Part III Lyric Exile 7 Cold War Exile and the Longing for Non-State Refuge: John Ashbery's American School in Paris Richard Cole 8 Lost Between Past and Future: Mario Benedetti's Geography of Return Frans Weiser Part IV Escaping the Map 9 Stateless Cartography in Eric Ambler's Novels: Escape Routes at the Edges of Legality Christian B. Long 10 Art of the Invisible: Drone Warfare, Rendition, and the Black Sites of Justice Georgiana Banita 11 Looking for Loopholes: The Cartography of Escape Emma Cocker Coda: The Cartographic Ethics of Exile Karen Elizabeth Bishop