Rethinking Identities Across Boundaries Genders/Genres/Genera
This collection of essays aims to widen the current critique on borders by examining their entanglements with constructions of identity and disciplinary categories. In particular, it calls into question established models of gender, notions of narrative genres and typological genera of borders in to...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2024, 2024
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2024 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1 Bordering Genders, Genres, Genera: An Introduction Claudia Capancioni, Mariaconcetta Costantini, and Mara Mattoscio
- 2 Biometric Technologies, Gendered Subjectivities, and Artistic Resistance C.L. Quinan
- 3 ‘My tongue doesn’t believe in boundaries’: A®tivism Across the US/Mexico Border Lorena Carbonara and Dora Renna
- 4 Migrant Women’s Documentary Filmmaking: Shifting Positionalities and Precarious Creativity in the Experience of Five Latin American Directors Dalila Missero
- 5 ‘I’ve always thought that we are living on the cowhide’: Chen Li’s Edge as Method and Border-Queering in The Edge of the Island Li-hsin Hsu
- 6 Crossing the Borders of Genders and Genres: Akwaeke Emezi’s Freshwater as a World-Making Narrative of Identity Reaffirmation Alessandra Di Pietro
- 7 Mobility, Belonging and the Utopia of a Borderless World: A Spatial and Identitarian Reading of Imbolo Mbue’s Behold theDreamers Mariaconcetta Costantini
- 8 ‘Violent Conclusions’ versus ‘Hopeful Returns’: Zadie Smith’s The Embassy of Cambodia and the Performative Border-Crossing of the Narrative Voice Mara Mattoscio
- 9 Morphing Forms: Metamorphosis in Twenty-First Century British Women’s Experimental Short Fiction Helen Cousins
- 10 ‘This particular art [is] all about walls’: Nomadic Poetics of Identity in Ali Smith’s How to be both Claudia Capancioni
- 11 Oblique Emotions and Border Intimacies in Dionne Brand’s Theory Libe García Zarranz 12 An Unresolved Crossing: David Foster Wallace’s ‘Oblivion’ Adriano Ardovino and Pia Masiero
- 13 Crossing Gender: Andy Warhol’s Candy Darling, America and Angela Carter’s The Passion of New Eve Marie Mulvey-Roberts
- 14 Genders, GYnealogies, GYne(co)alogies of Decolonial Geo-thalasso-corpographies: A Theoretical Reflection on Interconnectedness in Gender Configurations Paola Zaccaria
- 15 Spivak and Sontag: Deconstructing Borders Through a Philosophical Appraisal of Literature Chiara Scarlato