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Modern European Borders in Fiction : The Divided Continent.

Bloomsbury Collections: Literary Studies 2025 Available online

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Hammond, Andrew, author.
Contributor:
Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Boundaries in literature.
Europe--In literature.
Europe.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (367 pages)
Edition:
1st edition.
Place of Publication:
London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.
Summary:
Drawing on a significant literary corpus from Europe and the Global South, this book examines how post-1945 novelists have debated European borders and the ideologies, processes and effects of territorialisation.
Contents:
Cover
Titlepage
Copyright
Contents
INTRODUCTION
A Bordered World
The European Context
Approaches to Border Writing
Transnational Resistance in Fiction
Chapter 1 Civilizational Borders
The Idea of Europe
Novelists and the Cold War
Managing the Contemporary East
Voices from the Global South
Chapter 2 Physical Borders
Border Security since 1945
The Bounded State
Narratives of Border Crossing
Delocalization in Literature
Chapter 3 Social Borders
A Hybrid Continent
Writing from the Borderlands
Representing Micro-Regionalism
On Intra-National Boundaries
Bibliography
Index.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
1-350-51767-4
1-350-52905-2
1-350-51768-2
OCLC:
1527723018

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