Sites of exchange : : European crossroads and faultlines / / edited by Maurizio Ascari and Adriana Corrado.

Crossing borders - both physically and imaginatively - is part of our 'nomadic' postmodern identity, but transcultural and transnational exchanges have also played a major role in the centuries-long processes of hybridisation that helped to fashion the vast geographic, political and imagin...

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Superior document:Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 103
Year of Publication:2006
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 103.
Physical Description:1 online resource (297 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Summary:Crossing borders - both physically and imaginatively - is part of our 'nomadic' postmodern identity, but transcultural and transnational exchanges have also played a major role in the centuries-long processes of hybridisation that helped to fashion the vast geographic, political and imaginative container of diversity we call Europe. This volume gathers together the work of scholars from several European countries in an attempt to encourage a collective reflection upon historical - and often 'mythical' - locations and landscapes, as well as upon the thresholds and faultlines that unite or separ
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9401203075
1429456337
ISSN:0929-6999 ;
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: edited by Maurizio Ascari and Adriana Corrado.