Representing and (de)constructing borderlands / edited by Grzegorz Moroz and Jacek Partyka.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moroz, Grzegorz, editor.

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Modern--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Borderlands.

Borderlands (Imaginary place).

Intercultural communication.

Geography and literature.

Physical Description:

xii, 211 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.

Summary:

This volume stems from the assumption that broadly-understood borderlands, as well as peripheries, provinces or uttermost ends of different kinds, are abodes of significant culture-generating forces. From the academic point of view, their undeniable appeal lies in the fact that they constitute spaces of mutual interactions and enable new cultural phenomena to surface, grow or decline, and, as such, are worth thorough and constant scrutiny. However, they also provide the setting for radical clashes between ideologies, languages, religions, customs, and, as the media report every single day, armies or guerrilla units. Living within such areas of creative dynamics and destructive friction (or visiting them, even vicariously as the contributors to the volume do) is tantamount to exposing oneself to a difference. One's response to this difference-either in the form of rejection or, more preferably, acceptance (or a mixture of both) - is not merely an index of one's tolerance (a platitudinised term itself that all too often hides an attitude of comfortable indifference), but an affirmation of humaneness. Borderlands are paradoxical, if not aporetic, loci. They simultaneously connote territories on either side of a border, in a literal sense, and a vague, intermediate state or region, in a metaphorical sense. Encapsulating the idea of border, the term indicates both inescapable nearness and unavoidable (or perhaps unbridgeable) separateness. The studies included in the volume focus on various aspects of borderland art and literature, on analyses of selected works, and on the peculiarities of cultural and literary representations. Thus, the borderland landscape, both literal and metaphorical, comes to be seen as a factor contributing to the emergence of new, distinct and identifiable themes and motifs, as well as theoretical frameworks. Book jacket.

Contents:

Out of Exile: Some Thoughts on Exile as a Dynamic Condition / Eva Hoffman Hoffman, Eva 1

Eva Hoffman's Borderlands: A Personal Account / Urszula Zaliwska-Okrutna Zaliwska-Okrutna, Urszula 7

The Imagination Between Centre and Periphery in Milosz's Land of Ulro / Annette Aronowicz Aronowicz, Annette 21

Re-voicing Silesia: Comparative Literature and the (Re)Constructing of the Silenced Land / Tomasz Markiewka Markiewka, Tomasz 35

Living on the Border: The Silesian History of Places and Things / Aleksandra Kunce Kunce, Aleksandra 49

Borderlands as Intercultural Arcadias in Ryszard Kapuscinski's Travel Books / Grzegorz Moroz Moroz, Grzegorz 67

Olga Daukszta and the Borderlands of Polish Livonia / Ewangelina Skalinska Skalinska, Ewangelina 77

Gdansk/Danzig, Borderlands and Humour in Contemporary Polish Fiction / Viviana Nosilia Nosilia, Viviana 87

Reconfiguring the Borderlands of Civilisation, Romance and History: Lawrence Norfolk's The Pope's Rhinoceros / Barbara Klonowska Klonowska, Barbara 101

Other Borders: Nation, Gender and Genre in Ian Banks's The Wasp Factory and Dead Air / Katarzyna Wieckowska Wieckowska, Katarzyna 113

Pat Mora's Poem "1910": Crossing Borders with the Curandera / Anna Maszewska Maszewska, Anna 123

Rendering Visible or Blurring the Boundaries: Presence or Absence of Subtitles in the Multilingual Post-1990s Films of Turkey / Aysun Kiran Kiran, Aysun 137

The Parsley Massacre: Genocide on the Borderlands of Hispaniola in The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat / Anna Maria Karczewska Karczewska, Anna Maria 149

Borderlands of Cultures, Borderlands of Discourse: Cargo Cults and Their Reflection in Thomas Merton's Poetry / Malgorzata Poks Poks, Malgorzata 167

Towards a Literary Hermeneutics of the Borders and the Borderlands / Patrick Suter Suter, Patrick, Corinne Fournier Kiss Kiss, Corinne Fournier 185.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

1443887080

9781443887083

OCLC:

937455394

Publisher Number:

99966930450