A Geospatial and Cartographic Analysis of the Galician Black Genre: the Map as a Tool for a Sociology of Space and for Literary Education

Starting from the hypothesis that the noir genre constitutes a privileged vehicle for the expression of geospatial tensions, we intend to analyze, using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), the functioning of space in the Galician noir novel, as well as in audiovisual fiction. The emergence of the Galician noir novel is late. Crime en Compostela (1984) by Carlos Reigosa is considered the work that marks the beginning of the genre in Galicia. But in recent years we can speak of a real hatching. And while in the Galician literary tradition the primacy corresponded to the rural area, the noir genre has privileged the urban environment, becoming a true producer of urban literary geographies. By developing these maps we hope to illustrate the potential of literary cartography to generate useful tools for the analysis and understanding of the ideological, identity, and sociological mechanisms present in the conformation of literary spaces, as well as to explore its potential for literary dissemination and education.