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Informationen zum Autor 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 OsloJopi Nyman is Professor of English and Vice Dean at the Philosophical Faculty at the University of Eastern Finland Klappentext This interdisciplinary volume written by experienced scholars in border studies explores the political role of images and narratives addressing borders, borderscapes and migration. The volume offers new methodologies to approach the political aesthetics of the border and related issues such as borderland identities and border-crossings. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: images and narratives on the border - Jopi Nyman and Johan SchimanskiPart I: The Border (Forms)1 Phenomenology of the liminal - Wolfgang Müller-Funk2 Horizontal vertigo and psychasthenia: border figures of the fantastic - Patricia GarcíaPart II: Living with the Border (Zones)3 Capturing clouds: imagin(in)g the materiality of digital networks - Holger Pötzsch4 In/visibilities beyond the spectacularisation: young people, subjectivity, and revolutionary border Imaginations in the Mediterranean borderscape - Chiara Brambilla5 From heroism to grotesque: the invisibility of border-related trauma narratives in the Finnish-Russian borderlands - Tuulikki Kurki6 Expanded border imaginaries and aligned border narratives: ethnic minorities and localities in China's border encounters with Myanmar, Laos, and Vietnam - Victor Konrad and Zhiding HuPart III: Crossing the Border (Migrations)7 Borders: tshe topos of/for a post-politics of images? - Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary8 Some cunning passages in border-crossing narratives: seen and unseen migrants - Stephen F. Wolfe9 Borderscapes of Calais: images of 'The Jungle' in Breach by Olumide Popoola and Annie Holmes - Jopi Nyman10 Seasons of migration to the North: borders and images in migration narratives published in Norwegian - Johan Schimanski11 Performance of memory: testimonies of survival and rescue at Europe's border - Karina Horsti and Ilaria TucciEpilogue: border images and narratives: paradoxes, spheres, aesthetics - Johan Schimanski and Jopi NymanIndex...
