What is it about?
In the last part of his Itinerary from Paris to Jérusalem, Chateaubriand is primarily concerned with the quest for the great city of Carthage that is lost under its modern ruins. In this paper I propose to deal with Chateaubriand's concern with the representation of the Mediterranean space as a carefully dichotomized double locus that is exemplified in modern Tunis versus past Carthage. A close textual study sheds light on the dynamics of representation accomplished via an archaeology of mappings, mainly based on the author's time travel through written history.
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Why is it important?
How a great French figure of the 19th century, such as Chateaubriand, represented the travelled North African, Mediterranean space from both his personal travel experience and from his own readings and reconstructions of the historical texts about the two cities of Carthage and Tunis. The analysis is both an assessment of Chateaubriand's textual and spatial remapping and travel in the past and his concerns with his contemporary 19th century post-revolutionary Mediterranean context.
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This page is a summary of: Chateaubriand's Time Travel in Tunis and Carthage: An Archaeology of Mappings, Nineteenth Century French Studies, January 2018, Project Muse,
DOI: 10.1353/ncf.2018.0008.
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