A] revealing reflection and interpretation upon the development
of post-World War II Europe. It offers a vision of imposed borders
and boundaries that have become familiar yet remain disturbing;
such a dichotomy is explored in various ways in the essays to make
a provocative and fascinating book. The book is especially strong
in the combination of the empirical and theoretical, treating
borders and boundaries at many different levels from the purely
physical to the social, cultural and political, as well as the
symbolic. It is]...a very welcome addition to the field." . Wendy
Pullan, University of Cambridge
The volume is interdisciplinary and broadly conceptualized yet
it focuses on some key aspects that give the volume sufficient
focus and depth. The quality of the contributions (including the
substantive introduction) is consistently high... and] not merely a
collection of pieces from various disciplines; instead many
contributions speak to one another across individual disciplines,
e.g., in a consideration of the ambivalent or contradictory effects
of walls and boundaries-culturally, historically, and socially. .
Friederike Eigler, Georgetown University
How is it that walls, borders, boundaries-and their material and
symbolic architectures of division and exclusion-engender their
very opposite? This edited volume explores the crossings,
permeations, and constructions of cultural and political borders
between peoples and territories, examining how walls, borders, and
boundaries signify both interdependence and contact within sites of
conflict and separation. Topics addressed range from the
geopolitics of Europe's historical and contemporary city walls to
conceptual reflections on the intersection of human rights and
separating walls, the memory politics generated in historically
disputed border areas, theatrical explorations of border crossings,
and the mapping of boundaries within migrant communities.
Marc Silberman is Professor of German and Affiliate Professor in
Theatre and Drama as well as Film Studies at the University of
Wisconsin, Madison. He has published extensively on twentieth and
twenty-first century German literature, film, and theater.
Karen E. Till is Lecturer of Cultural Geography at the National
University of Ireland Maynooth and co-convener of the 'Mapping
Spectral Traces' international network. She is author of "The New
Berlin," co-editor of "Textures of Place," and working on a book
project, "Wounded Cities." Janet Ward is Professor of History at
the University of Oklahoma and author of "Post-Wall Berlin:
Borders, Space and Identity" and "Weimar Surfaces: Urban Visual
Culture in 1920s Germany." Her current work includes a co-edited
collection on (trans)nationalism and the German city, and a book
project on urban destruction and reconstruction.
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