Border Images, Border Narratives: The Political Aesthetics of Boundaries and Crossings

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This interdisciplinary volume explores the role of images and narratives in different borderscapes. Written by experienced scholars in the field, the book provides fresh insight into how borders, borderscapes, and migration are imagined and narrated in public and private spheres. Offering new ways to approach the political aesthetics of the border and its ambiguities, this volume makes a valuable contribution to the methodological renewal of border studies and presents ways of discussing cultural representations of borders and related processes. Influenced by the thinking of philosopher Jacques Ranciere, this timely volume argues that narrated and mediated images of borders and borderscapes are central to the political process, as they contribute to the public negotiation of borders and address issues such as the in/visiblity of migrants and the formation of alternative borderscapes.

Johan Schimanski is Professor of Comparative Literature and Head of Research at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages at the University of Oslo Jopi Nyman is Professor of English and Vice Dean at the Philosophical Faculty at the University of Eastern Finland -- .

'The collection succeeds in its intended purpose to contribute towards new approaches to the relevance and workings of borders. The book is of equal interest to students of cultural and literary English studies who wish to become acquainted with border studies, as much as for well-versed researchers looking for inspiration beyond the established forms of inquiry.' Sophie U. Kriegel, Leipzig University, Journal for the Study of British Cultures Vol. 29 Issue 1 (2022) -- .