corpography

plural corpographies

1. countableuncountablea means of conceptualizing a battlefield or war through the physical forms of soldiers

   What he calls ‘corpography’ implies a constant re-mapping of landscape through the soldier’s body.

   2018, Eileen Rositzka, Cinematic Corpographies: Re-Mapping the War Film Through the Body (Cinepoetics, Vol. 3), De Gruyter, →ISBN

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   In discussing the modern experience of battle, Derek Gregory has developed the neologistic concept of ‘corpography,’ explaining that ‘the radically different knowledges that the war-weary soldiers improvised as a matter of sheer survival [constitute] a corpography: a way of apprehending the battle space through the body as an acutely physical field in which the senses of sound, smell and touch were increasingly privileged in the construction of a profoundly haptic or somatic geography.’

   2023, Mary Allitt, “Corpography: Reconceptualising Somatic Geographies” (chapter 1), in Medical Caregiving Narratives of the First World War: Geographies of Care, Edinburgh University Press, pages 30-65

2. countableuncountablethe study of the experience of living in a body

   Their improvisational knowledges were intensely corporeal and constituted a ‘corpography’ whose constructions relied primarily on sound, smell and touch.

   2015, Derek Gregory, “Gabriel’s Map: Cartography and Corpography in Modern War” (chapter 4), in Peter Meusburger, Derek Gregory, Laura Suarsana, editors, Geographies of Knowledge and Power (Knowledge and Space, Vol. 7), →ISBN, pages 89-121

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   Space in the Francophone literature of the 20th century acts as an active player in the narratives here studied. This is where my use of the concept of “corpography” provides a new methodology to study representations of space within novels as it is conceived, perceived, and lived by characters in retracing their movements.

   2023, Alicia Rodriguez, Women in Motion: Corpographies of Francophone Narratives