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Uncertain territories : boundaries in cultural analysis /
Tracing and theorizing the concept of the boundaries through literary works, visual objects and cultural phenomena, this book argues against the reification of boundaries as fixed and empty non-spaces that simply divide the world. Expanding on her previous work on gender and Orientalism, Inge Boer t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; New York, NY :
Rodopi,
2006.
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| Colección: | Genus--gender in modern culture ;
7. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Tracing and theorizing the concept of the boundaries through literary works, visual objects and cultural phenomena, this book argues against the reification of boundaries as fixed and empty non-spaces that simply divide the world. Expanding on her previous work on gender and Orientalism, Inge Boer takes us into uncertain territories of fashion and art, tourism and travel, skilfully engaging the ambivalence of boundaries, as both protecting and confining, as bringing distinction while existing by virtue of their ability to be transgressed. In her close readings of that boundaries as desert, as. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 327 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-307) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781429481168 1429481161 9789401203715 9401203717 |