Borderlands and Liminal Subjects: Transgressing the Limits in Philosophy and Literature

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Borders are essentially imaginary structures, but their effects are very real. This volume explores both geopolitical and conceptual borders through an interdisciplinary lens, bridging the disciplines of philosophy and literature. With contributions from scholars around the world, this collection closely examines the concepts of race, nationality, gender, and sexuality in order to reveal the paradoxical ambiguities inherent in these seemingly solid binary oppositions, while critiquing structures of power that produce and police these borders. As a political paradigm, liminality may be embraced by marginal subjects and communities, further blurring the boundaries between oppressive distinctions and categories. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii Introduction: Borderlands and Liminality Across Philosophy and Literature (Jessica Elbert Decker, Dylan Winchock)....Pages 1-18 Front Matter ....Pages 19-19 Ethics at the Border: Transmitting Migrant Experiences (Filippo Menozzi)....Pages 21-40 Land, Territory and Border: Liminality in Contemporary Israeli Literature (Adia Mendelson-Maoz)....Pages 41-59 Zones of Maximal Translatability: Borderspace and Women’s Time (Heather H. Yeung)....Pages 61-81 Front Matter ....Pages 83-83 A Search for Colonial Histories: The Conquest by Yxta Maya Murray (Salvador C. Fernández)....Pages 85-103 Transforming Borders: Resistant Liminality in Beloved, Song of Solomon, and Paradise (Danielle Russell)....Pages 105-122 “Gone Over on the Other Side”: Passing in Chesnutt’s The House Behind the Cedars (Irina Negrea)....Pages 123-141 Front Matter ....Pages 143-143 Queering and Gendering Aztlán: Anzaldúa’s Feminist Reshaping of the Chicana/o Nation in the US–Mexico Borderlands (Tereza Jiroutová Kynčlová)....Pages 145-166 Achilles and the (Sexual) History of Being (William Koch)....Pages 167-186 Borderland Spaces of the Third Kind: Erotic Agency in Plato and Octavia Butler (Jessica Elbert Decker)....Pages 187-211 Front Matter ....Pages 213-213 Alice’s Parallel Series: Carroll, Deleuze, and the ‘Stuttering Sense’ of the World (Andrea Oppo)....Pages 215-233 Cultural Liminality: Gender, Identity, and Margin in the Uncanny Stories of Elizabeth Bowen (Paromita Mukherjee)....Pages 235-252 Crossing the Utopian/Apocalyptic Border: The Anxiety of Forgetting in Paul Auster’s In the Country of Last Things (Dylan Winchock)....Pages 253-270 Back Matter ....Pages 271-281