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  1. Representing and (De)Constructing Borderlands
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

    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... more

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    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 Intro -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Out of Exile -- Eva Hoffman's Borderlands -- The Imagination Between Centre and Peripheryin Milosz's Land of Ulro -- Re-voicing Silesia -- Living on the Border -- Borderlands as Intercultural Arcadiasin Ryszard Kapuscinski's Travel Books -- Olga Daukszta and the Borderlands of Polish Livonia -- Gdansk/Danzig, Borderlands and Humourin Contemporary Polish Fiction -- Reconfiguring the Borderlands of Civilisation, Romanceand History -- Other Borders -- Pat Mora's Poem "1910" -- Rendering Visible or Blurring the Boundaries -- The Parsley Massacre -- Borderlands of Cultures, Borderlands of Discourse -- Towards a Literary Hermeneutics of the Bordersand the Borderlands -- Contributors -- Index

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781443888608
    Edition: 1st ed
    Subjects: Literature, Modern--History and criticism
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (223 pages)
  2. Representing and (de)constructing borderlands
    Contributor: Moroz, Grzegorz (HerausgeberIn); Partyka, Jacek (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Cambridge Scholars Publis, Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K

    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... more

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    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

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Moroz, Grzegorz (HerausgeberIn); Partyka, Jacek (HerausgeberIn)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781443888608; 1443888605
    Edition: 1st unabridged
    Subjects: Literature, Modern; Borderlands; Borderlands (Imaginary place); Literature, Modern; Borderlands (Imaginary place); Literature, Modern; Borderlands; Borderlands (Imaginary place); Literature, Modern; Literary studies: general; Regional & national history; Criticism, interpretation, etc; LITERARY CRITICISM ; Modern ; General; Borderlands
    Scope: Online Ressource (211 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index. - Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 25, 2016)