Narratives of Border Crossings: Literary Approaches and Negotiations

Prof. Dr. Astrid M. Fellner

doi:10.5771/9783748924005

Summary

How can we understand borders in terms of aesthetic practice? As borders are increasingly moving into the centre of cultural negotiations, the essays in this volume focus on anglophone fiction, film and TV series which employ border-crossing narratives and engage in narrative poetics of cultural encounters. Addressing the complex roles of borders in cultural representations, the articles analyse recent reconceptualisations of borders as processes and practices in border narratives. This book will appeal to anyone interested in cultural border studies as well as ethnic studies. With contributions byPirjo Ahokas, Francesca de Lucia, Aikaterini Delikonstantinidou, Astrid M. Fellner, Dorothea Fischer-Hornung, Bettina Hofmann, Nadine M. Knight, Page Laws, Ludmilla Martanovschi, Janna Odabas, Silvia Schultermandl and Elke Sturm-Trigonakis.

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Edition: 1/2021
Copyright year: 2021
ISBN-Print: 978-3-8487-8008-2
ISBN-Online: 978-3-7489-2400-5
Publisher: Nomos, Baden-Baden
Series: Border Studies. Cultures, Spaces, Orders
Volume: 5
Language: English
Pages: 228
Product type: Edited Book

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 1 - 6
Introduction: Narratives of Border Crossings X Border-Crossing Narratives No access Pages 7 - 20 Astrid M. Fellner
1. Moving Borders, Shifting Territories: Border-Polyvalences in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange No access Pages 21 - 40 Silvia Schultermandl
2. Between Newark and the West Bank: Crossing Political and Narrative Boundaries in Philip Roth’s Israel Fiction No access Pages 41 - 54 Francesca de Lucia
3. Photography and Mapping: Geronimo and Indigenous Knowledge in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead No access Pages 55 - 80 Dorothea Fischer-Hornung
4. Neo-cosmopolitan Negotiations: Public and Private Border Crossings in Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s Joss and Gold No access Pages 81 - 94 Ludmila Martanovschi
5. Russian Jewish Emigrant Writers Leaving for the West: David Bezmozgis, Maxim Shrayer, and Vladimir Vertlib No access Pages 95 - 110 Bettina Hofmann
1. Constructions and Transgressions of Class, Gender, Race, and Genre in Hari Kunzru’s The Impressionist: A Narrative About Former and Current Globalizations No access Pages 111 - 130 Elke Sturm-Trigonakis
2. “Border-Perforating Catastrophes”: The Failure of Border Security in The City & The City and The Bridge No access Pages 131 - 150 Nadine M. Knight
3. Dissecting the Colorblind American Dream in Adichie’s Americanah and Selasi’s Ghana Must Go No access Pages 151 - 168 Pirjo Ahokas
4. A Haunting Controversy: Yamanaka’s Fictionalized Melodramatic Ghost Figures No access Pages 169 - 184 Janna Odabas
5. Post-Ethnic Virtual Reality in William Gibson’s Burning Chrome: Savage Hybrids Wandering Cyber-Borderlands No access Pages 185 - 206 Aikaterini Delikonstantinidou
6. Crossing the Boundaries of Decency? 12 Years a Slave and the Pornography of Pain No access Pages 207 - 222 Page Laws
List of Contributors No access Pages 223 - 228