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Borderlands and Liminal Subjects
Transgressing the Limits in Philosophy and Literature|
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| Verlag: | Palgrave Macmillan |
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| Veröffentl.: | 15.11.2017 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9783319678139 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
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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.<br>
<p>Introduction: Borderlands and Liminality Across Philosophy and Literature.- Ethics at the Border: Transmitting Migrant Experiences.- Land, Territory and Border: Liminality in Contemporary Israeli Literature.- Zones of Maximal Translatability: Borderspace and Women’s Time.- A Search for Colonial Histories: <i>The Conquest</i> by Yxta Maya Murray.- Transforming Borders: Resistant Liminality in <i>Beloved</i>, <i>Song of Solomon</i>, and <i>Paradise.- </i>“Gone Over on the Other Side:” Passing in Chesnutt’s <i>The House Behind the Cedars.- </i>Queering and Gendering Aztlán: Anzaldúa’s Feminist Reshaping of the Chicana/o Nation in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands.- Achilles and the (Sexual) History of Being.- Borderland Spaces of the Third Kind: Erotic Agency in Plato and Octavia Butler.- Alice's Parallel Series: Carroll, Deleuze, and the ‘Stuttering Sense’ of the World.- Cultural Liminality: Gender, Identity, and Margin in the Uncanny Stories of Elizabeth Bowen.- Crossing the Utopian / Apocalyptic Border: The Anxiety of Forgetting in Paul Auster’s <i>In the Country of Last Things.</i></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>
<p><b>Jessica Elbert Decker</b> is Associate Professor of Philosophy at California State University San Marcos, USA. Her current research investigates the symbolic structures of western patriarchy, especially as they appear in ancient philosophy, mythology, and psychoanalysis.</p><p> </p><p><b>Dylan Winchock </b>is a lecturer for the Literature & Writing and Liberal Studies programs at California State University San Marcos, USA. His scholarship focuses on contemporary literature and the emergence of borderlands as sites of hegemonic struggle in city space. His most recent project is a critique of utopian fantasies in literature.</p><p></p><p></p><div><p></p></div><p></p>
<p>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.</p>
Expands on a discourse that begins with Gloria Anzaldúa's view of the "border" as a ‘bleeding’ of categories into one another rather than as discrete spaces and identities Addresses the history of philosophical discourse that emphasizes the concept of liminality Discusses how an awareness of liminality can expand the possibilities for discourse relating to identity and conceptual systems
Expands on a discourse that begins with Gloria Anzaldúa's view of the "border" as a ‘bleeding’ of categories into one another rather than as discrete spaces and identities<br/>Addresses the history of philosophical discourse that emphasizes the concept of liminality<br/>Discusses how an awareness of liminality can expand the possibilities for discourse relating to identity and conceptual systems <br/>
“This collection speaks to the generativity and the urgency of the border, real or imagined, as a site for thinking and for doing. With its wide-ranging investigations from emerging and established scholars, Borderlands and Liminal Subjects is an essential contribution to the burgeoning interdiscipline between philosophy and literature, opening myriad possibilities at the limits of familiar categories, whether nation, race, gender, or genre.” (Emanuela Bianchi, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Classics, New York University, USA) <p>“How rare to find a volume that is truly committed to crossing disciplinary boundaries—rarer still, one that does it well. Borderlands and Liminal Subjects does both, rigorously applying the foundational insights of feminist border-thinking to novel and compelling sites within philosophy, literature, and the under-theorized space between them.” (Holly Moore, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Luther College, USA)</p>
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