This introduction proposes the central concept of spaces in transit to convey the mutability of the meanings attributed to and the processes affecting material sites associated with the memories of collectivities and socially framed individuals, subjected as they are to ongoing negotiations, interpretations and (re)mediations. In order to illuminate this concept and underscore the mnemonic force of literature, a brief analysis of two poetic responses to Cecil Rhodes’s burial place in Zimbabwe is offered. Spanning a period of over a century, Rudyard Kipling’s “The Burial” (1904) and Cynthia Marangwanda’s “The Body Is a Weapon” (2022) map the gravesite’s trajectory as a space in transit from being a place of celebration of a revered historical figure, into becoming a conflicted site of memory. As the notion of space in transit emerges from the conjunction of two crucial paradigm shifts, the flourishing of cultural memory studies and the spatial turn, an overview of both movements and their most recent conceptualizations and developments is given. The theoretical discussion is complemented by a review of the existing scholarship on literary and cultural mediations of spatialized memory, which is followed by the chapters’ outlines.