Thank you for visiting nature. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer. In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript. The rise of an interstitial heterotopic space to fill in between the public and the private is what characterizes the Palace in the novel.
It allows for the emergence of a whole landscape of power politics driven by the ramifications of the space and affecting its inhabitants. Since this space is analyzable, its inhabitants are overshadowed by its grander aura. The inextricable link between spatial materiality and practiced ideology has featured in the anthropological studies which examined the role played by and through ideology in constructing space in whole or in part.
It has been compartmentalized by new discoveries allowing for a better understanding of the embeddedness of the spatial within discursive practices see for example, Ghulyan, ; Sadoughianzadeh, There is a plethora of studies which moves the space from the material to the ideological, such as Coleman, Collins Locating the field: Space, Place and Context in Anthropology , Dawson et al. This problematization allows us to conceptualize a stark distinction between the commonly used interchangeable terms of space and place.
To oppose and challenge the everyday struggle which Alami perceived as completely political and seek change is to create heterogenous forms and spaces opposing capitalism. The triadic process of producing space described by Henri Lefebvre in his analysis of social space the physical, the representational and the lived is meant to create new modes of spatiality. This spatial metamorphosis has prompted inquiries into the relationship between localizable spaces and how they are envisaged in literature.
The spatiality of the literary texts has been extended to the formulaic genres. Robert T. Tally Jr. It then becomes a specific mode of physical or even mythical , metaphorical, or literary spaces Sajjad and Perveen, What combines the medical and non-medical usages of the term is its definition in relation to a bigger space the body in the medical definition, and the existing normative space in the political one.
