Border Images, Border Narratives (eBook)

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

Introduction: images and narratives on the border – Jopi Nyman and Johan Schimanski

Part I: The Border (Forms)
1 Phenomenology of the liminal – Wolfgang Müller-Funk
2 Horizontal vertigo and psychasthenia: border figures of the fantastic – Patricia García

Part II: Living with the Border (Zones)
3 Capturing clouds: imagin(in)g the materiality of digital networks – Holger Pötzsch
4 In/visibilities beyond the spectacularisation: young people, subjectivity, and revolutionary border Imaginations in the Mediterranean borderscape – Chiara Brambilla
5 From heroism to grotesque: the invisibility of border-related trauma narratives in the Finnish–Russian borderlands – Tuulikki Kurki
6 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 Hu

Part III: Crossing the Border (Migrations)
7 Borders: tshe topos of/for a post-politics of images? – Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary
8 Some cunning passages in border-crossing narratives: seen and unseen migrants – Stephen F. Wolfe
9 Borderscapes of Calais: images of ‘The Jungle’ in Breach by Olumide Popoola and Annie Holmes – Jopi Nyman
10 Seasons of migration to the North: borders and images in migration narratives published in Norwegian – Johan Schimanski
11 Performance of memory: testimonies of survival and rescue at Europe’s border – Karina Horsti and Ilaria Tucci
Epilogue: border images and narratives: paradoxes, spheres, aesthetics – Johan Schimanski and Jopi Nyman

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