Uncertain territories : boundaries in cultural analysis / / Inge E. Boer ; edited by Mieke Bal, Bregje van Eekelen, Patricia Spyer.
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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| Superior document: | Genus--gender in modern culture ; 7 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Genus--gender in modern culture ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (342 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- List of Figures
- Editors' Preface
- Introduction
- The Function of Boundaries
- 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
- Matter In and Out of Space
- No-Man's-Land? Deserts and the Politics of Place
- Just a Fashion? Cultural Cross-Dressing
- Border Fetishism: Negotiable Authenticity
- Placing Inge E. Boer
- 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"
- Giving Life: Inge Boer's Postcolonial Theory / Isabel Hoving
- Bibliography
- List of Contributors
- Index of Names and Places
- Index of Terms and Concepts.