In recent years, space—along with such related concepts or practices as spatial- ity, mapping, topography, deterritorialization, and so forth—has become a key term for literary and cultural studies. The nineteenth century had been domi- nated by a discourse of time, history, and teleological development (following in the Hegelian tradition) and by a modernist aesthetic that enshrined the tem- poral, especially with respect to individual psychology (à la Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time). But after the Second World War, space began to reassert itself in critical theory, rivaling if not overtaking time.