Spatial Residue

Mauve Perle Tahat, PhD, is a scholar of American literature and environmental humanities whose work explores carcerality, cultural memory, and place. They are the author of Ecologies of Incarceration: Carceral Discard Studies in the Anthropocene (Lexington, 2024) and the forthcoming Spatial Residue: Plastic Affects and Configurations of Place (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026).

• AcknowledgmentsChapter 1: A Living MemorialChapter 2: PortalsChapter 3: NavigationChapter 4: Dead PuppetsChapter 5: FugaziChapter 6: DismalChapter 7: The CarnivalChapter 8: Beige HellChapter 9: Reclamation of Space//Defiance of DespairReferencesAbout the Author

"Spatial Residue’s exploration of plastic and place as it relates to the physical, the temporal, and the psychic is nothing short of visionary. Dr. Mauve Perle Tahat very intentionally warps time and calls on us to interrogate the mise en abyme nature of the realms we inhabit. Personal and incisive, this book is a very needed triumph."