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Reading(s) / across / Borders
Studies in Anglophone Borders Criticism
Series: - Spatial Practices, Volume: 33
Volume Editor:
This 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 âborderlessâ 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 volumeâs cross-border ânarrativeâ 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 ârealâ territorial borders and their âfictionalâ counterparts.
Ciaran Ross is Professor of English and Irish Literature at the University of Strasbourg. He has published monographs on Samuel Beckett, including Beckettâs Art of Absence: Rethinking the Void (2011). He is the editor of SubVersions. Trans-National Readings of Modern Irish Literature (2010).
âAcknowledgments
âNotes on Contributors
âIntroduction: Where to Draw the Line?
ââCiaran Ross
âPrologue: Borders and the Moment of Bewilderment
ââCornelius Crowley
Part 1: Lines of Demarcations: Geopolitical Borders and Boundaries
âIntroduction to Part 1
1 Union, Home Rule and Partition: Irish Borders Mapped and Remapped
ââPauline Collombier-Lakeman
2 Delimiting a Utopian Space: The Borders of the Calcutta Botanic Garden in the 19th Century
ââMarine Bellégo
3 The Historiography of the American West: Frontier(s), Borders, Borderlands
ââNathalie Massip
4 The Inner Border: Edward Hopperâs Reimagining the Frontier
ââHélène Gaillard
5 Combining a Closed and Open Border in the Terrorism Era: The Example of the Canada/US Border
ââPierre-Alexandre Beylier
Part 2: Aesthetic Borders and Liminal Space
âIntroduction 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
ââRémi Vuillemin
7 Plotting a Line: Liminality and Border as Concept and Device in Walter Scottâs Rob Roy(1817)
ââMatthew Smith
8 The Insular Border as a Fluid Space of Transgression: Treasure Islandâs Adventurous Aesthetics
ââJulie Gay
Part 3: Crossing Borders: Considerations of the Other Side
âIntroduction to Part 3
9 Distant Tongues: The Border Poetics of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
ââAmanda Murphy
10 Ex-centrism and Intersections: Crossing the Border in Continental Drift by Russell Banks
ââMarine Paquereau
11 Reggae Outernational: Borders and Trans/National Identity in Jamaican Popular Music
ââDavid Bousquet
12 Navigating the Restless âBoundaries of Migrationâ: Ruth Padelâs The Mara Crossingas a âMatter-Realistâ Exploration of the Border between the Human and the Nonhuman
ââMaria Tang
âIndex of Names
âNotes on Contributors
âIntroduction: Where to Draw the Line?
ââCiaran Ross
âPrologue: Borders and the Moment of Bewilderment
ââCornelius Crowley
Part 1: Lines of Demarcations: Geopolitical Borders and Boundaries
âIntroduction to Part 1
1 Union, Home Rule and Partition: Irish Borders Mapped and Remapped
ââPauline Collombier-Lakeman
2 Delimiting a Utopian Space: The Borders of the Calcutta Botanic Garden in the 19th Century
ââMarine Bellégo
3 The Historiography of the American West: Frontier(s), Borders, Borderlands
ââNathalie Massip
4 The Inner Border: Edward Hopperâs Reimagining the Frontier
ââHélène Gaillard
5 Combining a Closed and Open Border in the Terrorism Era: The Example of the Canada/US Border
ââPierre-Alexandre Beylier
Part 2: Aesthetic Borders and Liminal Space
âIntroduction 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
ââRémi Vuillemin
7 Plotting a Line: Liminality and Border as Concept and Device in Walter Scottâs Rob Roy(1817)
ââMatthew Smith
8 The Insular Border as a Fluid Space of Transgression: Treasure Islandâs Adventurous Aesthetics
ââJulie Gay
Part 3: Crossing Borders: Considerations of the Other Side
âIntroduction to Part 3
9 Distant Tongues: The Border Poetics of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
ââAmanda Murphy
10 Ex-centrism and Intersections: Crossing the Border in Continental Drift by Russell Banks
ââMarine Paquereau
11 Reggae Outernational: Borders and Trans/National Identity in Jamaican Popular Music
ââDavid Bousquet
12 Navigating the Restless âBoundaries of Migrationâ: Ruth Padelâs The Mara Crossingas a âMatter-Realistâ Exploration of the Border between the Human and the Nonhuman
ââMaria Tang
âIndex of Names
All interested in border studies and, in particular, the history and critical significance of borders in the contemporary Anglophone world: politics, history, geography, culture, literature, art and music.