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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of Contents 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
