Border Aesthetics
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Literary Studies
Mobility Studies
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- ISBN 9781789200539
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 12 Oct 2018
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Johan Schimanski is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Oslo. Stephen F. Wolfe is Associate Professor of English Literature and Culture at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.
