Border Stories

Narratives of Peace, Conflict and Communication in the 20th and 21st Centuries

Heike Schwarz, Beate Greisel, Tanja Konrad, Senta Sanders

• Publisher: Peter Lang Group
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN:
  9783631735701
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9783631735985
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

Narratives of human existence that cross borders on manifold levels and reflect current vulnerability to the environment and humankind are essential preconditions to ensure an open-minded and humanistic society. This collection covers environmental, ethical, political, postcolonial, psychological, and sociological issues of borders and border-crossing. Combining creative writing with academic essays, this book seeks to incorporate the productive results of the eponymous Summer School which was organized for GAPS and held at the University of Augsburg in September 2015.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Table of Contents
• Introduction (Beate Greisel / Tanja Konrad / Senta A. Sanders / Heike Schwarz)
• Across the Rift Valley and Beyond: Border Crossings in “When Africa Calls Uhuru” (Henry Beissel)
• Lone Wolves (at the Breach) (Ivaylo R. Shmilev)
• Paradise (Sarah Nowotny)
• Woman with Golden Apple (no ordinary fruit) (Dorothea Smartt)
• eshu* cuban fusion (Dorothea Smartt)
• Poem about My Rights (Ellina Totoeva)
• Grass in the Concrete (Donna Bartl)
• The Permeability and Inevitability of Borders: A Cultural-Ecological View (Hubert Zapf)
• “Stories that Speak in Ropes of Blue Water”: Environmental Justice in Martha Baillie’s The Search for Heinrich Schlögel (Senta A. Sanders)
• Blue Hawai’i? Adam Horowitz’s Film Nuclear Savage (Mita Banerjee)
• “Indeed our Ways of Dying are our Ways of Living”: Cultural Ecology in Zakes Mda’s Ways of Dying (Tanja Konrad)
• The Animal Was Never Non-Human: Human Dignity and the Twentieth Century (Sonja Schillings)
• Moving (Across) Borders: Dystopian Bodies and Possibilities of Transgression in Ahmed Khaled Towfik’s Utopia (2008) and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) (Alessandra Boller / Walaa Said)
• Cultural Displacement, Multiple Selves, and Psychological Border Crossing in Hualing Nieh’s Mulberry and Peach: Two Women of China (Heike Schwarz)
• Between ‘Here’ and ‘There’: Epistolary Motifs as Border Motifs in Selected Short Stories by Austin Clarke (Rebekka Schuh)
• The Devil in Exile: “Apologies from the Ground Up” for ‘Lamentable Mistakes’ (Beate Greisel)
• Beyond the Rectangle: Border Crossings in Visual Art (Arlette Francière / Senta A. Sanders)
• Biographical Notes