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Abstract
Since maps function as both analysis tools and research objects of literary geography, the digital evolution of mapping is relevant to this subdiscipline of literary criticism in two respects. Modes and potentials of digital cartography affect the analytical instruments – the ‘maps of fiction’. Moreover, non-expert ‘maps in digital fiction’ or rather ‘fictions in digital maps’ have been developed. These websites and their amateur cartographies of fictional(ized) worlds expand the research field towards a ‘literary neogeography’. This paper approaches the digital analysis objects from several perspectives. It analyses the recent history and samples of what I term geomedia fiction. Based on a small-scale qualitative study, it additionally involves user feedback regarding selected websites.
During the ‘Mapping Maps’ workshop at University of Siegen in January 2011, I had the chance to present an intermediate stage of this paper. I would like to thank the interdisciplinary audience for their helpful notes and the open discussion. Moreover, I want to thank the reviewers as well as Jörg Döring and Bartek Goldmann for their constructive critique and valuable complementary suggestions which have enabled me to refine this essay.