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Borderline Citizen - Dispatches from the Outskirts of Nationhood (Paperback)
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Borderline Citizen - Dispatches from the Outskirts of Nationhood (Paperback)
Series: American Lives
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Loot Price R522
Discovery Miles 5 220
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In Borderline Citizen Robin Hemley wrestles with what it means to
be a citizen of the world, taking readers on a singular journey
through the hinterlands of national identity. As a polygamist of
place, Hemley celebrates Guy Fawkes Day in the contested Falkland
Islands; Canada Day and the Fourth of July in the tiny U.S. exclave
of Point Roberts, Washington; Russian Federation Day in the Russian
exclave of Kaliningrad; Handover Day among protesters in Hong Kong;
and India Day along the most complicated border in the world.
Forgoing the exotic descriptions of faraway lands common in
traditional travel writing, Borderline Citizen upends the genre
with darkly humorous and deeply compassionate glimpses into the
lives of exiles, nationalists, refugees, and others. Hemley's
superbly rendered narratives detail these individuals, including a
Chinese billionaire who could live anywhere but has chosen to
situate his ornate mansion in the middle of his impoverished
ancestral village, a black nationalist wanted on thirty-two
outstanding FBI warrants exiled in Cuba, and an Afghan refugee
whose intentionally altered birth date makes him more easy to
deport despite his harrowing past. Part travelogue, part memoir,
part reportage, Borderline Citizen redefines notions of nationhood
through an exploration of the arbitrariness of boundaries and what
it means to belong.
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