Crossing borders, dissolving boundaries / edited by Hein Viljoen.

• Superior document: Cross/cultures : readings in the post/colonial literatures in English, 157
• TeilnehmendeR: Viljoen, Hein.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Cross/cultures ; 157.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (324 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Representing the Unpresentable: Between the Secular and the Spiritual in Gordimer’s Post-Apartheid Fiction /; Narrative Dynamics and Boundaries: The Undermining of Event and Eventfulness in The Book of Happenstance by Ingrid Winterbach /; Deneys Reitz and the Bounds of Self-Understanding /; Challenging and Negotiating National Borders: Sámi and Tornedalian AlterNative Literary History /; The Visual Representation of the Boundary Between Past and Present: Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard and Suzman’s The Free State /; Earth as Home: Nature and Refuges/Living Spaces in Some Afrikaans Narratives /; Borders and Abjection in Triomf /; Body, Corpus, and Corpse: Delineating Henrik Ibsen in A.S. Byatt’s The Biographer’s Tale /; Pronouncing it the Porder: Ascribing Aesthetic Values to External and Internal National Borders in Frank A. Jenssen’s The Salt Bin /; The Normal and the Carceral: Boundaries in Thomas Harris’s The Silence of the Lambs /; The Aid of Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of AIDS: Eben Venter’s Ek stamel ek sterwe /; Navigating the Interstitial: Boundaries in Lady Anne by Antjie Krog /; Notes on the Contributors.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
• ISBN: 9401209081
• ISSN: 0924-1426
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Hein Viljoen.

Borders separate but also connect self and other, and literary texts not only enact these bordering processes, but form part of such processes. This book gestures towards a borderless world, stepping, as it were, with thousand-mile boots from south to north (even across the Atlantic), from South Africa to Scandinavia. It also shows how literary texts model and remodel borders and bordering processes in rich and meaningful local contexts. The essays assembled here analyse the crossing and negotiation of borders and boundaries in works by Nadine Gordimer, Ingrid Winterbach, Deneys Reitz, Janet Suzman, Marlene van Niekerk, A.S. Byatt, Thomas Harris, Frank A. Jenssen, Eben Venter, Antjie Krog, and others under different signs or conceptual points of attraction. These signs include a spiritual turn, eventfulness, self-understanding, ethnic and linguistic mobilization, performative chronotopes, the grotesque, the carceral, the rhetorical, and the interstitial. Contributors: Ileana Dimitriu, Heilna du Plooy, John Gouws, Anne Heith, Lida Krüger, Susan Meyer, Adéle Nel, Ellen Rees, Johan Schimanski, Tony Ullyatt, Phil van Schalkwyk, Hein Viljoen.