Borders and border crossings in the contemporary British short story

This book represents a contribution to both border studies and short story studies. In today's world, there is ample evidence of the return of borders worldwide: as material reality, as a concept, and as a way of thinking. This collection of critical essays focuses on the ways in which the cont...

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Other Authors Korte, Barbara, 1957- (Editor), Lojo Rodríguez, Laura Ma (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
Subjects
Short stories, English > History and criticism.
English fiction > 21st century > History and criticism.
Emigration and immigration in literature.
Border crossing in literature.
Boundaries in literature.
2000-2099
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783030303594
9783030303587
Physical Description1 online zdroj (xiv, 289 stran)

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Border(ing)s in Contemporary Short Stories of the British Isles / Barbara Korte, Laura Mª Lojo-Rodríguez
  • Geopolitics and Grievable Lives
  • Glimpses of a Divided Kingdom in Zadie Smith's Short Stories of the 2010s / Barbara Korte
  • Refugee Fictions: Brexit and the Maintenance of Borders in the European Union / Kristian Shaw
  • The Border Lives of the Unmourned: Olumide Popoola's Refugee Stories "Counting Down" and "Expect Me" / Stephanie Bender
  • Global Travel and In/Voluntary Border Crossings: Anne Enright's "The Hotel" / Ann-Marie Einhaus
  • A Permeable Fortress: European Tales of Global Conflict / Ulricke Zimmermann
  • Ethnicity and Liminal Identities
  • Stranded in a Border Zone: Traumatic Liminality in Black British Short Stories / Jorge Sacido-Romero
  • Border Experiences and Liminal Identities in Andrea Levy's Short Stories / Laura Mª Lojo-Rodríguez
  • Sartorial Borders and Border Crossing in Contemporary Multi-ethnic Short Stories / Noemí Pereira-Ares
  • Animal Encounters and Metamorphic Bodies
  • Indifferent Borders: Confined and Liminal Spaces in Sarah Hall's "Bees" / Christiane Hansen
  • Human into Animal: Post-anthropomorphic Transformations in Sarah Hall's "Mrs Fox" / Julia Ditter
  • Weird Border Crossings in China Miéville's "Looking for Jake", "The Tain" and "Säcken" / Thomas Knowles
  • Liminal Territory in the Fenland Stories of Jon McGregor and Daisy Johnson / Ailsa Cox
  • The Short Story, Borders and Intermediality
  • Strangers at the Gates: Intermediality, Borders and the Short Story / Pete Kalu
  • Liminal Encounters Between Literature and Music in Contemporary British Women's Short Stories / Carmen Lara-Rallo.

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