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 ;
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The world beyond my window : nomads, travelling theories, and the function of boundaries
- Public violence hits home : civil war and the destruction of privacy
- Uncertain territories : travel as exchange
- No-man's land? : deserts and the politics of place
- Just a fashion? : cultural cross-dressing
- Border fetishism : negotiable authenticity
- Impressions of character : Hari Kunzru's The impressionist / Murat Aydemir
- From travelogue to ethnography and back again? : Hilma Granqvist's writings and photographs / Annelies Moors
- Between hospitality and hostility : crossing Balkan borders in Adela Peeva's Whose is this song? / Maria Boletsi
- Borders of the art world, boundaries of the artwork : on "contemporary art from the Islamic world" / Begüm Özden Firat
- Giving life : Inge Boer's postcolonial theory / Isabel Hoving.