The Map woman

mediation (idenitity)

“a woman’s skin was a map of the town”

“a precise second skin”

“a precise of where to end or to go back or begin”

“over her breast was the heart of the town”

• narryiove - bildungsroman

loss of autonomy

“the map was under her stockings…a delicate braille”

“the map translated everything back to herself”

“she didn’t live there now but trhe map”

“her body was certain…one-way street of her past”

existential loss

“her skin sloughed like a snake’s”

“her new skin showed barely a mark”

“her skin was her own small ghost”

“old streets tunelled…hunting for home”

“a woman’s skin was a map of the town”

• indefinte article, universalises

• declaratice- extended metaphor- collapses boundary between body + landscape

“a precise second skin”

skin noun- idenity protetcion worn, carried

“a precise of where to end or to go back or begin”

• lexical field of precision- idenity mapped + predetermined… human exp = fixed coordinates

“over her breast was the heart of the town”

• metaphor for places, emo core directly over heart

• meaning for emo culpabiloity not self generated but formed through geography

“the map was under her stockings…a delicate braille”

• braille- constantly forced to re-experience

• metaphor + tactile imagery- past is continously felt and cannot be erased

“the map translated everything back to herself”

• everyghing0 adverb- totalising nature of control

• translated- verb- new expe through framework lack of autonomy over perception

• inescability

“she didn’t live there now but trhe map”

• declarative tension between external change and internal stasis

“her body was certain…one-way street of her past”

certain- absolute removes sense of choice so identyty becoes rigid and unquestionable

“her skin sloughed like a snake’s”

• visceral simile - transformation + rebirth

• latent tones of unsettling + incomplete

“her new skin showed barely a mark”

• allusionof freedom

• absence creates void bc surface lacks meaning so undefines + unstavble self

• identity contingent on geo inscribe

“her skin was her own small ghost”

• diminuitive adjective- diminshing sense of self w/o map identity reduced

• hauting metaphor

• noun- absence + lingering pastr despite discarded exits psychological traces

“old streets tunelled…hunting for home”

• map internalised

• - verbs= invasive + unconrtollable past moves with in her

• unresolved search for belonging

• idenity cannot be fully erased