Border Transits : Literature and Culture across the Line.
What constitutes a border situation? How translatable and "portable" is the border? What are the borders of words surrounding the border? In its five sections, Border Transits: Literature and Culture across the Line intends to address these issues as it brings together visions of border dy...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam :
Rodopi,
2007.
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| Series: | Critical Approaches to Ethnic American Literature (CAEAL), 2.
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| Summary: | What constitutes a border situation? How translatable and "portable" is the border? What are the borders of words surrounding the border? In its five sections, Border Transits: Literature and Culture across the Line intends to address these issues as it brings together visions of border dynamics from both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. The volume opens with "Part I: (B)orders and lines: A Theoretical Intervention," which explores the circle and the cross as spatial configurations of two contradictory urges, to separate and divide on the one hand, and to welcome and allow passage on the other. "P. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (312 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9789401204774 9401204772 |