Understanding Maps after Multimodal Literature: A New Taxonomy

The article examines literature’s multifaceted engagement with maps, focusing on twenty-first century Anglophone fiction. Within the framework of multimodality, collective map-based works such as Where You Are and novels Bats Republic highlight uncharted potential maps hold for contemporary writing well bring to fore significant, but undertheorized intersections between cartography literature. Offering a reconsideration existing taxonomies in light rise multimodal literary texts, invites interdisciplinary perspectives that can shed diverse engagements current future works.