The Literary Mapping of César Aira's Novel Ema,la cautiva
The literary mapping of Ema,la cautiva as a literary geography reveals the metaphors that César Aira puts into his work as a"mapper".In the novel,Aira breaks the temporal structure,maps the geographic space of Argentina in the 19th century through the textual depiction of action routes and map markers,and reconstructs the survival status of different ethnic groups in this field,recounting the unique local conditions and customs in an open and inclusive literary writing,revealing u-nique cultural characteristics and establishing narrative authority.Focusing on the novel Ema,la cautiva from the perspective of literary geography,we analyze the novel's narrative as a mapping project,explore the spatial coherence and wholeness con-structed through the narrative strategy of"proportional distortion",and reflect on the novel's function as a mapping to con-struct meaning.