ORCID
- Phil Smith: 0000-0002-0711-8242
Abstract
In this article, we make an argument for addressing place-based narratives as ‘tissues of meaning’ rather than as discrete linearities. We look at how this allows us to skirt certain hierarchies of value in order to address narratives inclusively; tracing their continuity and morphology across literary novels, folklore records, information boards, church pamphlets and village names. Drawing examples from Crab & Bee projects including ‘Plymouth Labyrinth’ (2018–9) and ‘The Pattern’ (2020), we draw analogies between the role of sheets of fascia (gristle, jelly, fat, connective tissue, cartilage) in the human body – as a means of disrupting the assumed linearity (one step after another) of walking – and the idea of a narrative-fascia that stretches across different fields of literary production rather than a linear storyline. In conclusion, we argue for a radical inseparability of text and space and write of the need to read them both through the whole body.
DOI
10.1080/14688417.2022.2114518
Publication Date
2022-11-21
Publication Title
Green Letters
Volume
26
Issue
3
ISSN
1468-8417
Embargo Period
2024-09-30
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
Recommended Citation
Smith, P., & Billinghurst, H. (2022) 'Placestory/Storyplace: A Gristly category for a New Poetics of Space', Green Letters, 26(3). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/14688417.2022.2114518
