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@article{ Brown2006,
 title = {A geographer reads Geography Club: spatial metaphor and metonym in textual/sexual space},
 author = {Brown, Michael},
 journal = {Cultural Geographies},
 number = {3},
 pages = {313-339},
 volume = {13},
 year = {2006},
 doi = {https://doi.org/10.1191/1474474006eu362oa},
 urn = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-232797},
 abstract = {In this paper I offer a geographer's reading of Brent Hartinger's                American teen novel Geography Club. My intellectual aim is to extend work on the                spatialities of the closet, especially those that appreciate both its fixity and                fluidity in space. I do this by drawing out the spatial metonymy around closet                space, alongside its metaphoric-material dimensions. Specifically, my reading                focuses on four themes to achieve this aim: (a) the ubiquity of spatial language                throughout the text, of which closet space is one part, (b) the materiality of the                closet space in the narrative, (c) the metaleptic and synechdochal qualities of                metonymy between the closet and the world, and (d) the placeless and fluidity as                important signifiers of the closet in the main character's experience.                These insights are not only meant to advance spatial understandings of the closet in                more complex and dynamic ways, but also to prompt conversation between cultural                studies, queer theory, and human geography.},
}