Telling a Spatial History of the Columbian Exposition of 1893

Abstract

Although there are as many ways to write spatial discourse as there are scholars to do the writing, spatial historiography (as I understand it) involves a spatial critique of epistemology and ideology. The ideological critique centers on enfranchisement, chiefly opening the record in terms of race, class, and gender, but also opening it to other areas of hi story (to include popular theatre, museum studies, or anthropology in a theatre history, for example). The ideological move is sometimes made, however, without mounting an epistemological critique of the temporal (by which is meant linear, causal, and progressive) arrangement of the historical record, an ideological change of the players, as it were, without an accompanying g epistemological change in the rules of the game. Theatre historical studies adds the further problems of real versus simulated, of present and represented, of true and false, of. aesthetic timespace and actual timespace, and a host of other issues arising from the nature of performance.

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