Crossing Borders Dissolving Boundaries

Author : Hein Viljoen
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789401209083

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Crossing Borders, Dissolving Boundaries by Hein Viljoen Pdf

Borders separate but also connect self and other, and literary texts not only enact these bordering processes, but form part of such processes. This book gestures towards a borderless world, stepping, as it were, with thousand-mile boots from south to north (even across the Atlantic), from South Africa to Scandinavia. It also shows how literary texts model and remodel borders and bordering processes in rich and meaningful local contexts. The essays assembled here analyse the crossing and negotiation of borders and boundaries in works by Nadine Gordimer, Ingrid Winterbach, Deneys Reitz, Janet Suzman, Marlene van Niekerk, A.S. Byatt, Thomas Harris, Frank A. Jenssen, Eben Venter, Antjie Krog, and others under different signs or conceptual points of attraction. These signs include a spiritual turn, eventfulness, self-understanding, ethnic and linguistic mobilization, performative chronotopes, the grotesque, the carceral, the rhetorical, and the interstitial. Contributors: Ileana Dimitriu, Heilna du Plooy, John Gouws, Anne Heith, Lida Krüger, Susan Meyer, Adéle Nel, Ellen Rees, Johan Schimanski, Tony Ullyatt, Phil van Schalkwyk, Hein Viljoen.

Author : Mirjana Morokvasic,Kyoko Shinozaki,Umut Erel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3663095304

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Crossing Borders and Shifting Boundaries by Mirjana Morokvasic,Kyoko Shinozaki,Umut Erel Pdf

Author : Melih Karakuzu,Hasan Baktır,Banu Akçeşme,Betül Ateşci Koçak
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527570290

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Exploring Borders and Boundaries in the Humanities by Melih Karakuzu,Hasan Baktır,Banu Akçeşme,Betül Ateşci Koçak Pdf

In a ‘post-everything’ world, we have felt more pain than happiness in building and tampering with borders. The term ‘border’ has been expanded to become a ploy for grim, chauvinistic, self-flattery, and ultra-nationalist bigotry. We have also faced notorious coverage of the ‘border’ in the media worldwide, and its diverse forms have been extensively deployed in cinema and literature. Centering on a wide range of literary and cinematic genres, the contributors to this volume explore and explain distinct theoretical and scholarly arguments to promote research on literary, linguistic, and media representations of the word ‘border.’

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004417885

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Reading(s) / across / Borders by Anonim Pdf

These inter-disciplinary essays explore the foundational ambiguity of borders, their roles, functions and place in the Anglophone world, whether it be in history, politics, literature, art or music or, theoretically, in the critical relations between space, discourse and representation.

Author : Barbara Korte,Laura Ma Lojo-Rodríguez
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030303594

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Borders and Border Crossings in the Contemporary British Short Story by Barbara Korte,Laura Ma Lojo-Rodríguez Pdf

This book represents a contribution to both border studies and short story studies. In today’s world, there is ample evidence of the return of borders worldwide: as material reality, as a concept, and as a way of thinking. This collection of critical essays focuses on the ways in which the contemporary British short story mirrors, questions and engages with border issues in national and individual life. At the same time, the concept of the border, as well as neighbouring notions of liminality and intersectionality, is used to illuminate the short story’s unique aesthetic potential. The first section, “Geopolitics and Grievable Lives”, includes chapters that address the various ways in which contemporary stories engage with our newly bordered world and borders within contemporary Britain. The second section examines how British short stories engage with “Ethnicity and Liminal Identities”, while the third, “Animal Encounters and Metamorphic Bodies”, focuses on stories concerned with epistemological borders and borderlands of existence and identity. Taken together, the chapters in this volume demonstrate the varied and complex ways in which British short stories in the twenty-first century engage with the concept of the border.

Author : Johan Schimanski,Stephen F. Wolfe
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781785334658

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Border Aesthetics by Johan Schimanski,Stephen F. Wolfe Pdf

Few concepts are as central to understanding the modern world as borders, and the now-thriving field of border studies has already produced a substantial literature analyzing their legal, ideological, geographical, and historical aspects. Such studies have hardly exhausted the subject’s conceptual fertility, however, as this pioneering collection on the aesthetics of borders demonstrates. Organized around six key ideas—ecology, imaginary, in/visibility, palimpsest, sovereignty and waiting—the interlocking essays collected here provide theoretical starting points for an aesthetic understanding of borders, developed in detail through interdisciplinary analyses of literature, audio-visual borderscapes, historical and contemporary ecologies, political culture, and migration.

Author : Stiliana Milkova Rousseva
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501357534

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Elena Ferrante as World Literature by Stiliana Milkova Rousseva Pdf

"A model of academic praxis." - Public Books Elena Ferrante as World Literature is the first English-language monograph on Italian writer Elena Ferrante, whose four Neapolitan Novels (2011-2014) became a global phenomenon. The book proposes that Ferrante constructs a theory of feminine experience which serves as the scaffolding for her own literary practice. Drawing on the writer's entire textual corpus to date, Stiliana Milkova examines the linguistic, psychical, and corporeal-spatial realities that constitute the female subjects Ferrante has theorized. At stake in Ferrante's theory/practice is the articulation of a feminine subjectivity that emerges from the structures of patriarchal oppression and that resists, bypasses, or subverts these very structures. Milkova's inquiry proceeds from Ferrante's theory of frantumaglia and smarginatura to explore mechanisms for controlling and containing the female body and mind, forms of female authorship and creativity, and corporeal negotiations of urban topography and patriarchal space. Elena Ferrante as World Literature sets forth an interdisciplinary framework for understanding Ferrante's texts and offers an account of her literary and cultural significance today.

Author : Corina Stan,Charlotte Sussman
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031307843

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The Palgrave Handbook of European Migration in Literature and Culture by Corina Stan,Charlotte Sussman Pdf

The Palgrave Handbook of European Migration in Literature and Culture engages with migration to, within, and from Europe, foregrounding migration through the lenses of historical migratory movement and flows associated with colonialism and postcolonialism. With essays on literature, film, drama, graphic novels, and more, the book addresses migration and media, hostile environments, migration and language, migration and literary experiment, migration as palimpsest, and figurations of the migrant. Each section is introduced by one of the handbook’s contributing editors and interviews with writers and film directors are integrated throughout the volume. The essays collected in the volume move beyond the discourse of the “refugee crisis” to trace the historical roots of the current migration situation through colonialism and decolonization.

Author : Andrew Hammond
Publisher : Springer
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137526274

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The Novel and Europe by Andrew Hammond Pdf

This book examines the ways in which fiction has addressed the continent since the Second World War. Drawing on novelists from Europe and elsewhere, the volume analyzes the literary response to seven dominant concerns (ideas of Europe, conflict, borders, empire, unification, migration, and marginalization), offering a ground-breaking study of how modern and contemporary writers have participated in the European debate. The sixteen essays view the chosen writers, not as representatives of national literatures, but as participants in transcontinental discussion that has occurred across borders, cultures, and languages. In doing so, the contributors raise questions about the forms of power operating across and radiating from Europe, challenging both the institutionalized divisions of the Cold War and the triumphalist narrative of continental unity currently being written in Brussels.

Author : Justin Fox
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781415211311

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Place by Justin Fox Pdf

Place is a moving love letter to South Africa, merging literature and land­scape, and taking the reader on a breath-taking journey – into the heart of South Africa’s spectacular landscape and the inner-worlds of its most cel­ebrated authors.

Author : Robert E. Rinehart
Publisher : Peter Lang Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Boundaries
ISBN : 1789975514

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Ethnographic Borders and Boundaries by Robert E. Rinehart Pdf

"'A stunning collection of border-crossing, transgressive essays on the complexities of living in the twilight zones of the postmodern, complexities made visible by contemporary ethnography at the crossroads. A must read.'- Norman K. Denzin, Emeritus Professor, University of Illinois Immigrants, migrants, displaced and diasporic persons: all have been constrained or enabled by borders of some sort. This bookexplores international cases of how and why such boundaries come to be; who is affected by sociallyconstructed borders; what it means to individuals and nation-states to recognise and deal with arbitrary divisions; and finally, what might be done to find - and act on -solutions to the inequity wrought by these borders and boundaries"--

Author : Anne Teresa Demo
Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781602357396

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Rhetoric Across Borders by Anne Teresa Demo Pdf

Rhetoric Across Borders features a select representation of 27 essays and excerpts from the “In Conversation” panels at the Rhetoric Society of America’s 2014 conference on “Border Rhetorics.”

Author : Susan Brantly
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781315386454

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The Historical Novel, Transnationalism, and the Postmodern Era by Susan Brantly Pdf

This volume explores the genre of the historical novel and the variety of ways in which writers choose to represent the past. How does an author’s nationality or gender impact their artistic choices? To what extent can historical novels appeal to a transnational audience? This study demonstrates how histories can communicate across national borders, often by invoking or deconstructing the very notion of nationhood. Furthermore, it traces how the concerns of the postmodern era, such as postmodern critiques of historiography, colonialism, identity, and the Enlightenment, have impacted the genre of the historical novel, and shows this impact has not been uniform throughout Western culture. Not all historical novels written during the postmodern era are postmodern. The historical novel as a genre occupies a problematic, yet significant space in Cold War literary currents, torn between claims of authenticity and the impossibility of accessing the past. Historical novels from England, America, Germany, and France are compared and contrasted with historical novels from Sweden, testing a variety of theoretical perspectives in the process. This pitting of a center against a periphery serves to highlight traits that historical novels from the West have in common, but also how they differ. The historical novel is not just a local, regional phenomenon, but has become, during the postmodern era, a transnational tool for exploring how we should think of nations and nationalism and what a society should, or should not, look like.

Author : Marija Krsteva
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781000832235

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Towards a Theory of Life-Writing by Marija Krsteva Pdf

Towards a Theory of Life-Writing: Genre Blending provides a look into the rules of life-writing genre blending proposing a theory to explain and illustrate the main regulations governing such genre play. It centers on fact and fiction duality in the formation of auto/biofictional genres. This book investigates the existing developments in this field, and explores major criticism and lines of inquiry in order to arrive at the theory of life-writing genre play textuality. The specific interplay of the different generic characteristics develops a specific textuality at the heart of it. This is termed biofictional preservation (biopreservation) to explain the textual transformation and the shaping of the auto/biofictional genres. Written for undergraduate and graduate students, but also for the general readers, the book further exemplifies the theory in the analyses of different biofictions about the American authors F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway featuring overlapping and juxtaposed material. This volume aims to provide a theory of this specific textuality in order to better understand and approach the process in question as well as to open up new horizons for further study and exploration.

Author : Tamara Shefer,Jeff Hearn,Kopano Ratele,Floretta Boonzaier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351982177

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Engaging Youth in Activism, Research and Pedagogical Praxis by Tamara Shefer,Jeff Hearn,Kopano Ratele,Floretta Boonzaier Pdf

Engaging Youth in Activism, Research and Pedagogical Praxis: Transnational and Intersectional Perspectives on Gender, Sex, and Race offers critical perspectives on contemporary research and practice directed at young people across the global north and south. Drawing upon pedagogical, programmatic, and activist work with respect to challenging inequalities and injustices for young people, the authors interrogate the dominant discourses of sexuality, gender, race, class, age and other social categories. Emerging out of a Finnish-South African collaboration, this volume does not take a comparative approach but rather a transnational one by embracing the intersections of local and global knowledges. We draw on this transnational and transdisciplinary framework and these various contexts to generate a critique of mainstream theory and pedagogical practice, as well as to subvert and disrupt such research and practice so as to speak more directly to young people's agentic and activist engagements in social justice, specifically inequalities of class, race, gender, age, sexuality, ability, and health.