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Few concepts are as central to understanding the modern world as
borders, and the now-thriving field of border studies has already
produced a substantial literature analyzing their legal,
ideological, geographical, and historical aspects. Such studies
have hardly exhausted the subject's conceptual fertility, however,
as this pioneering collection on the aesthetics of borders
demonstrates. Organized around six key ideas-ecology, imaginary,
in/visibility, palimpsest, sovereignty and waiting-the interlocking
essays collected here provide theoretical starting points for an
aesthetic understanding of borders, developed in detail through
interdisciplinary analyses of literature, audio-visual
borderscapes, historical and contemporary ecologies, political
culture, and migration.
This interdisciplinary volume explores the role of images and
narratives in different borderscapes. Written by experienced
scholars in the field, the book provides fresh insight into how
borders, borderscapes, and migration are imagined and narrated in
public and private spheres. Offering new ways to approach the
political aesthetics of the border and its ambiguities, this volume
makes a valuable contribution to the methodological renewal of
border studies and presents ways of discussing cultural
representations of borders and related processes. Influenced by the
thinking of philosopher Jacques Ranciere, this timely volume argues
that narrated and mediated images of borders and borderscapes are
central to the political process, as they contribute to the public
negotiation of borders and address issues such as the in/visiblity
of migrants and the formation of alternative borderscapes. -- .
Few concepts are as central to understanding the modern world as
borders, and the now-thriving field of border studies has already
produced a substantial literature analyzing their legal,
ideological, geographical, and historical aspects. Such studies
have hardly exhausted the subject's conceptual fertility, however,
as this pioneering collection on the aesthetics of borders
demonstrates. Organized around six key ideas-ecology, imaginary,
in/visibility, palimpsest, sovereignty and waiting-the interlocking
essays collected here provide theoretical starting points for an
aesthetic understanding of borders, developed in detail through
interdisciplinary analyses of literature, audio-visual
borderscapes, historical and contemporary ecologies, political
culture, and migration.
Literary museums today must respond to new challenges; the
traditional image of the author's home museum as a sacred place of
literary pilgrimage centered around a national hero has been
questioned, and literary museums have begun to develop new
strategies centered not only on biography, but also literary texts,
imagined spaces, different readers, historical contexts,
architectural concepts, and artistic interventions. As this volume
shows, the changing of spaces asks how literary museums create new
ways of interlinking real and literary spaces, texts, objects,
readers, and tourists.
This interdisciplinary volume explores the role of images and
narratives in different borderscapes. Written by experienced
scholars in the field, Border images, border narratives provides
fresh insight into how borders, borderscapes, and migration are
imagined and narrated in public and private spheres. Offering new
ways to approach the political aesthetics of the border and its
ambiguities, this volume makes a valuable contribution to the
methodological renewal of border studies and presents ways of
discussing cultural representations of borders and related
processes. Influenced by the thinking of philosopher Jacques
Ranciere, this timely volume argues that narrated and mediated
images of borders and borderscapes are central to the political
process, as they contribute to the public negotiation of borders
and address issues such as the in/visiblity of migrants and the
formation of alternative borderscapes. The contributions analyse
narratives and images in literary texts, political and popular
imagery, surveillance data, border art, and documentaries, as well
as problems related to borderland identities, migration, and
trauma. The case studies provide a highly comparative range of
geographical contexts ranging from Northern Europe and Britain, via
Mediterranean and Mexican-USA borderlands, to Chinese borderlands
from the perspectives of critical theory, literary studies, social
anthropology, media studies, and political geography. -- .
Is it possible to create a community where everyone lives according
to their own rhythm, and yet respects the individual rhythms of
others? This volume contains new essays which investigate and
actualize the concepts that Roland Barthes discussed in his famous
1977 lecture series on "How to Live Together" at the College de
France.The anthology presents original and thought-provoking
approaches to questions of conviviality and "idiorrhytmic life
forms" in literature, arts and other media.The essays are written
by 32 highly competent scholars from seven countries, representing
literary studies, philosophy, social sciences, theology, church
history, psychoanalysis, art history, architecture, media studies,
history of ideas, and biology.
Both fictional and non-fictional accounts of the Arctic have long
been a major source of powerful images of the region, and have thus
had a crucial part to play in the history of human activities
there. This volume provides a wide-reaching investigation into the
discourses involved in such accounts, above all into the
consolidation of a discourse of "Arcticism" (modelled on Edward
Said's concept of "Orientalism"), but also into the many
intersecting discourses of imperialism, nationalism, masculinity,
modernity, geography, science, race, ecology, indigeneity,
aesthetics, etc.Perspectives originating from inside and outside
the Arctic, along with hybrid positions, are examined, with special
attention being given to the textual genres, narratives and figures
which they mobilize, together with to the close relationship
between the Arctic as an unknown place and the literary
imagination.The different chapters address a wide geographical
range of texts, providing a necessary supplement to most previous
work in the field, and also address the wide variety of genres
which flourish under the aegis of Arctic discourse, ranging from
exploration accounts, travel-writing, political texts and
journalism through diaries and historical documents to novels and
novelizations, and including also other media, such as music and
opera.
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