Borders and Border Crossings in the Contemporary British Short Story

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Korte, Barbara (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Lojo-Rodríguez, Laura Mª (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Θέματα: Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-21st century.; British literature.; Literature .; Emigration and immigration.; Contemporary Literature.; British and Irish Literature.; Postcolonial/World Literature.; Migration.

This book represents a contribution to both border studies and short story studies. In today's world, there is ample evidence of the return of borders worldwide: as material reality, as a concept, and as a way of thinking. This collection of critical essays focuses on the ways in which the cont...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Border(ing)s in Contemporary Short Stories of the British Isles
• Chapter 2: Glimpses of a Divided Kingdom in Zadie Smith's Short Stories of the 2010s
• Part I: Grievable Lives and Refugees' Tales
• Chapter 3: Refugee Fictions: Brexit and the Maintenance of Borders in the European Union
• Chapter 4: The Border Lives of the Unmourned: Olumide Popoola's Refugee Stories
• Chapter 5: Global Travel and In/voluntary Border Crossings: Anne Enright's "The Hotel"
• Chapter 6: A Permeable Fortress: European Tales of Global Conflict
• Part II: Ethnicity and Liminal Identities
• Chapter 7: Stranded in a Border Zone: Traumatic Liminality in Black British Short Stories
• Chapter 8: Border Experiences and Liminal Identities in Andrea Levy's Short Stories
• Chapter 9: Sartorial Borders and Border Crossing in Contemporary Multi-Ethnic Short Stories
• Part III: Animal Encounters and Metamorphic Bodies
• Chapter 10: Indifferent Borders: Confined and Liminal Spaces in Sarah Hall's "Bees"
• Chapter 11: Human Into Animal: Post-Anthropomorphic Transformations in Sarah Hall's "Mrs Fox"
• Chapter 12: Weird Border Crossings in China Miéville's "Looking for Jake", "The Tain" and "Säcken"
• Chapter 13: Liminal Territory in the Fenland Stories of Jon McGregor and Daisy Johnson
• Part IV: The Short Story, Borders and Intermediality
• Chapter 14: Strangers at the Gates: Intermediality, Borders and the Short Story
• Chapter 15: Liminal Encounters between Literature and Music in Contemporary British.