%0 Journal Article
%T The Propositional Logic of Mapping Transnational American Studies¡ªA Response to ¡°¡®Deep Maps¡¯: A Brief for Digital Palimpsest Mapping Projects¡±
%A Karen Elizabeth Bishop
%J Journal of Transnational American Studies
%D 2011
%I
%X This response to Shelley Fisher Fishkin's ¡°¡®Deep Maps¡¯: A Brief for Digital Palimpsest Mapping Projects¡± explicates the layers of complex interconnected practices that Fishkin¡¯s paradigm of Deep Maps instates. Bishop notes that Fishkin¡¯s trope of palimpsests ¡°depends on a scholarly methodology that privileges the transnational as a structure, a means, and a dynamic site of excavation for intellectual inquiry¡± and ¡°provides for new forms of collaborative writing and new reading practices¡± in which scholars, students, and even members of the general public can build geo-archives together. Fishkin¡¯s Deep Maps project, Bishop concludes, foregrounds a construction of place in a ¡°self-reflective placial exercise¡± that accepts ¡°other national literatures and histories [with] . . . their own ways of understanding and engaging with the transnational.¡±
%K Transnational American Studies
%K Deep Maps
%K Palimpsest
%U https://submit.escholarship.org/ojs/index.php/acgcc_jtas/article/view/11635