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Borderlands and liminal subjects
transgressing the limits in philosophy and literature
Abstract
Borders are essentially imaginary structures, but their effects are very real. This volume explores both geopolitical and conceptual borders through an interdisciplinary lens, bridging the disciplines of philosophy and literature. With contributions from scholars around the world, this collection closely examines the concepts of race, nationality, gender, and sexuality in order to reveal the paradoxical ambiguities inherent in these seemingly solid binary oppositions, while critiquing structures of power that produce and police these borders. As a political paradigm, liminality may be embraced by marginal subjects and communities, further blurring the boundaries between oppressive distinctions and categories.
Details | Table of Contents
borderlands and liminality across philosophy and literature
pp.1-18
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67813-9_1transmitting migrant experiences
pp.21-40
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67813-9_2liminality in contemporary Israeli literature
pp.41-59
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67813-9_3borderspace and women's time
pp.61-81
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67813-9_4The conquest by Yxta Maya Murray
pp.85-103
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67813-9_5resistant liminality in beloved, song of Solomon, and Paradise
pp.105-122
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67813-9_6passing in Chesnutt's The house behind the cedars
pp.123-141
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67813-9_7Anzaldúa's feminist reshaping of the Chicana/o nation in the US–Mexico borderlands
pp.145-166
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67813-9_8erotic agency in Plato and Octavia Butler
pp.187-211
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67813-9_10Carroll, Deleuze, and the "stuttering sense" of the world
pp.215-233
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67813-9_11gender, identity, and margin in the uncanny stories of Elizabeth Bowen
pp.235-252
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67813-9_12the anxiety of forgetting in Paul Auster's in the country of last things
pp.253-270
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67813-9_13Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Dordrecht
Year: 2017
Pages: 281
ISBN (hardback): 978-3-319-67812-2
ISBN (digital): 978-3-319-67813-9
Full citation:
Elbert Decker Jessica, Winchock Dylan (2017) Borderlands and liminal subjects: transgressing the limits in philosophy and literature. Dordrecht, Springer.