Border-Crossings

Narrative and Demarcation in Postcolonial Literatures and Media

Edited by Russell West-Pavlov Edited by Justus Makokha Edited by Jennifer Wawrzinek

Book cover: Border-Crossings

Extent: 280, 280 pages

Publisher: Universitätsverlag Winter

Subjects: Earth & Life Sciences , Literary Studies

Series: Anglistische Forschungen

Series volume number: 419

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(January 2012)

ISBN: 9783825358990

6.5 x 9.65 inches

Price: $50.00

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The history of human interaction around the globe with its extraordinary mobility, hostility, productivity and creativity has clearly been driven as much by the infringement of borders as by their maintenance. This collection of essays scrutinizes the functions of borders, demarcations and their transgression in literature and other cultural artefacts. This resolutely interdisciplinary volume straddles a number of literary domains and also celebrates intermedial and generic transgressions, with its own internal borders being inhabited by a photo essay and two cycles of poems by contemporary Australian poets. These disciplinary and artistic border-crossings index a fundamental mobility, whether geographical, cultural or intellectual, which provides the very grounds upon which the volume’s critical undertaking reposes.

  • Edited by Russell West-Pavlov
  • Edited by Justus Makokha
  • Edited by Jennifer Wawrzinek