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This chapter contains sections titled: The Ancestors of the Asian American Short Story The Age of Blooming: The Contemporary Asian American Short Story References and Further Reading

This report focuses on the growing interest in the relationship between maps, narratives and metanarratives. Following a brief historical contextualization of these relationships, this report explores their current state in the Geoweb era. Using the distinction between story maps and grid maps as an analytical framework, I review emerging issues around the extensive use of technologies and online mapping services (i.e. Google maps) to convey stories and to produce new ones. Drawing on literature in film studies, literary studies, visual arts, computer science and communication, I also emphasize the emergence of new forms of spatial expressions interested in providing different perspectives about places and about stories associated to places. In sum, I argue that mapping both vernacular knowledge and fiction is central to understanding places in depth.

Tolkien's portrayal of Lothlórien is layered with complexities that reflect broader tensions between the feminine landscape and the masculine impulse to understand, name, and rationalize the world. This article examines the 'fight' over Lothlórien and its entitlement to truth from both female and male perspectives. It combines a close reading of passages from The Fellowship of the Ring with theories of name-giving, power, and mapping. The article concludes by evaluating these insights through the lens of Kristeva's concept of the \"abject\" and discussing what 'queer' might mean in the Tolkien oeuvre.

This article examines the connection between the late Victorian lost world novel and the fraudulent or flawed maps that frequently punctuate its narratives. Drawing on sociological risk theory, it argues that the model of adventure structuring these texts is one of liminality and 'experiential tension,' and that their fraudulent geographies are a spatial counterpart to this liminal model. They promote an adventure characterized by perpetual potential and possibility, one we might more accurately term 'meta-adventure.' This model was central to both the imperialist enterprise during the late nineteenth century and to the discourse of 'hypothetical masculinity' that helped bolster and uphold it. The problematic geographies of these texts illuminate the ways in which fiction, masculinity, and adventure were mutually productive processes during the fin de siècle, and the ways in which this interrelationship was facilitated, at least in part, by the 'unmapping' of adventurous space.

Crime fiction frequently takes the real and imaginary geography of islands as its setting and subject. Through a reading of selected novels by Anne Zouroudi, Jeffrey Siger, and Paul Johnston, this article looks at ways in which ideas about 'islandness' operate in contemporary English-language crime fiction set in the Aegean Sea. Specifically, it uses geocriticism and spatial literary studies to explore the ways non-textual paratext--in particular covers and maps--work alongside a text, or narrative, to capitalize on the lure of islands.

While critics have acknowledged Ernest Hemingway’s lengthy historical research in the composition of his Great War fiction, few have recognized how the cartographic methods developed during the war influenced his themes and prose style. In “Soldier’s Home,” the pivotal story in his 1925 breakout collection In Our Time , the ex-Marine Harold Krebs returns from the war unable to find his civilian bearings until he consults maps of the battles in which he fought. Krebs’s mental reacclimatization specifically involves the cartographic process of “restitution,” whereby aerial photographs were stripped of their extraneous or obfuscating details and converted into maps showing only relevant images. In evolving from a tactical wartime procedure to a strategic postwar worldview, restitution ultimately shields Krebs from life details that would otherwise prove too emotionally hazardous to keep within his purview and helps guide him toward a future away from his familiar, yet oppressive, surroundings.

This incredibly wide-ranging collection of maps--all inspired by literary classics--offers readers a new way of looking at their favorite fictional worlds. Andrew DeGraff's stunningly detailed artwork takes readers deep into the landscapes from The Odyssey, Hamlet, Pride and Prejudice, Invisible Man, A Wrinkle in Time, Watership Down,A Christmas Carol, and more. Sure to reignite a love for old favorites and spark fresh interest in more recent works as well, Plotted provides a unique new way of appreciating the lands of the human imagination.

A comparative analysis of Neil Gaiman's dark fantasy novella Coraline and its source of inspiration, Lucy Clifford's Victorian cautionary tale \"The New Mother,\" explores how the ominous dread related to the monstrous mother figure and the abjectification of the self are transformed into a \"funcanny\" experience in the postmodern rewriting. By relying on methodologies of corporeal narratology and cognitive poetics I study the embodied cognition of uncertainty during the child protagonists' psychic/physical confrontation with the unheimlich and the je ne sais quoi as forms of undecidability. The analysis maps linguistic attempts at formulating cognitive dissonance, tip-of-the-tongue phenomena, and subconscious thoughts. While Clifford uses narrative gaps to offer a metaimaginative insight into the catastrophic consequences of interpretive failures resulting from the misunderstanding of verbal and corporeal signs of disorientation, Gaiman's mind-reading instances of \"psychonarration\" reveal the troubled child's mental coping mechanisms, to celebrate infantile curiosity and fantasy in terms of gifts of empowerment, resilience, and empathy.

This paper examines the transformative potential of generative artificial intelligence (AI) and neuroaesthetic methodologies in archaeology, museum collections and art history. It introduces the concept of the AI multiverse, which allows archaeologists and social scientists to construct multiple plausible reconstructions of ancient environments and cultural practices, addressing the inherent uncertainties in archaeological data. Generative AI tools create simulations and visualizations that redefine traditional archaeological frameworks by incorporating multivocal and dynamic interpretations. The study also integrates visual thinking strategies (VTSs), eye tracking and saliency map analyses to investigate how structured observation enhances cognitive and emotional engagement with visual artifacts. A case study involving the painting My Mother, She Fell From the Sky highlights the impact of VTS on guiding viewers’ gaze and improving interpretive depth, as evidenced by heatmaps and saliency distribution.