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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Boer, Inge E.
Otros Autores: Bal, Mieke, 1946-, Eekelen, Bregje van, Spyer, Patricia, 1957-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2006.
Colección:Genus--gender in modern culture ; 7.
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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.