Reading(s) / Across / Borders

Studies in Anglophone Borders Criticism
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-41787-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 33, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 522 g

Reihe: Spatial Practices

This collection emphasizes a cross-disciplinary approach to the relevance of borders and bordering as a spatial paradigm in Anglophone studies. It sets out to provide a critical counter-narrative to the 1990s globalization argument of a “borderless” world by insisting on the significant roles borders play. The essays range in subject matter from geography, history, British and American literature to painting and Reggae music and map out different conceptualisations of the border: place, line, process, contact zones, etc. The volume’s cross-border “narrative” serves as a point of communication between the local and the global, between Europe and America, between different literary and artistic genres, thus challenging the divides of geography and literature, between “real” territorial borders and their “fictional” counterparts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Ross, Ciaran

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Where to Draw the Line?

Ciaran Ross

Prologue: Borders and the Moment of Bewilderment

Cornelius Crowley

Part 1: Lines of Demarcations: Geopolitical Borders and Boundaries

Introduction to Part 1

1 Union, Home Rule and Partition: Irish Borders Mapped and Remapped

Pauline Collombier-Lakeman

2 Delimiting a Utopian Space: The Borders of the Calcutta Botanic Garden in the 19th Century

Marine Bellégo

3 The Historiography of the American West: Frontier(s), Borders, Borderlands

Nathalie Massip

4 The Inner Border: Edward Hopper’s Reimagining the Frontier

Hélène Gaillard

5 Combining a Closed and Open Border in the Terrorism Era: The Example of the Canada/US Border

Pierre-Alexandre Beylier

Part 2: Aesthetic Borders and Liminal Space

Introduction to Part 2

6 Borders and Liminal Spaces in 16th-Century Collected Poetry: A Spatial Approach to the Advent of the English Sonnet Sequence in Print

Rémi Vuillemin

7 Plotting a Line: Liminality and Border as Concept and Device in Walter Scott’s Rob Roy(1817)

Matthew Smith

8 The Insular Border as a Fluid Space of Transgression: Treasure Island’s Adventurous Aesthetics

Julie Gay

Part 3: Crossing Borders: Considerations of the Other Side

Introduction to Part 3

9 Distant Tongues: The Border Poetics of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

Amanda Murphy

10 Ex-centrism and Intersections: Crossing the Border in Continental Drift by Russell Banks

Marine Paquereau

11 Reggae Outernational: Borders and Trans/National Identity in Jamaican Popular Music

David Bousquet

12 Navigating the Restless “Boundaries of Migration”: Ruth Padel’s The Mara Crossingas a “Matter-Realist” Exploration of the Border between the Human and the Nonhuman

Maria Tang

Index of Names

Über Autor(innen)

Ciaran Ross is Professor of English and Irish Literature at the University of Strasbourg. He has published monographs on Samuel Beckett, including Beckett’s Art of Absence: Rethinking the Void (2011). He is the editor of SubVersions. Trans-National Readings of Modern Irish Literature (2010).