This volume investigates the relationship between exile - understood broadly to include external and internal exile, diaspora, deterritorialization, reterritorialization, expatriation, migrants, refugees, nomads, and the forcibly 'disappeared' - and map-making. Mapping is a certain science that enables emplacement and facilitates movement; yet it is also an aesthetic project that draws on a heightened awareness of space and place, memory, and political and historical imaginaries. This book reveals the overwhelming importance of agency in exile that map-making facilitates, and the epistemological displacement that map-making depends upon, to build the known world.

Introduction: The Cartographical Necessity of Exile Karen Elizabeth Bishop Part I: Exilic Textualities 1 A Cartography of the Uncertain: The Maya Textual Exile Nathan C. Henne 2 A Cartography of Exile: Du Bellay's France, mere des arts Tom Conley 3 Handprints: The Cartographic Vision of Mirta Kupferminc Amy Kaminsky Part II Geographies of Displacement 4 Traverse, Territory and the Ecological Uncanny: James Rennell and the Mapping of the Gangetic Plains Swati Chattopadhyay 5 Shackle, Sycamore, Shibboleth: Material Geographies of the Underground Railroad Tom Nurmi 6 Isabella Stewart Gardner's "Barbarous Barbaro": Fenway Court as Exilic Map and Liberation Cartography Paul Fisher Part III Lyric Exile 7 Cold War Exile and the Longing for Non-State Refuge: John Ashbery's American School in Paris Richard Cole 8 Lost Between Past and Future: Mario Benedetti's Geography of Return Frans Weiser Part IV Escaping the Map 9 Stateless Cartography in Eric Ambler's Novels: Escape Routes at the Edges of Legality Christian B. Long 10 Art of the Invisible: Drone Warfare, Rendition, and the Black Sites of Justice Georgiana Banita 11 Looking for Loopholes: The Cartography of Escape Emma Cocker Coda: The Cartographic Ethics of Exile Karen Elizabeth Bishop