Borderlands and Liminal Subjects (eBook)

Transgressing the Limits in Philosophy and Literature

Jessica Elbert Decker, Dylan Winchock (Herausgeber)

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2017 | 1st ed. 2017
XIII, 281 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-67813-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Borders are essentially imaginary structures, but their effects are very real. This volume explores both geopolitical and conceptual borders through an interdisciplinary lens, bridging the disciplines of philosophy and literature. With contributions from scholars around the world, this collection closely examines the concepts of race, nationality, gender, and sexuality in order to reveal the paradoxical ambiguities inherent in these seemingly solid binary oppositions, while critiquing structures of power that produce and police these borders. As a political paradigm, liminality may be embraced by marginal subjects and communities, further blurring the boundaries between oppressive distinctions and categories.

Jessica Elbert Decker is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at California State University San Marcos, USA.  Her current research investigates the symbolic structures of western patriarchy, especially as they appear in ancient philosophy, mythology, and psychoanalysis.

Dylan Winchock is a lecturer for the Literature & Writing and Liberal Studies programs at California State University San Marcos, USA.  His scholarship focuses on contemporary literature and the emergence of borderlands as sites of hegemonic struggle in city space. His most recent project is a critique of utopian fantasies in literature.

Autor

Jessica Elbert Decker is Associate Professor of Philosophy at California State University San Marcos, USA.  Her current research investigates the symbolic structures of western patriarchy, especially as they appear in ancient philosophy, mythology, and psychoanalysis. Dylan Winchock is a lecturer for the Literature & Writing and Liberal Studies programs at California State University San Marcos, USA.  His scholarship focuses on contemporary literature and the emergence of borderlands as sites of hegemonic struggle in city space. His most recent project is a critique of utopian fantasies in literature.

Inhalt

Introduction: Borderlands and Liminality Across Philosophy and LiteratureEthics at the Border: Transmitting Migrant ExperiencesLand, Territory and Border: Liminality in Contemporary Israeli LiteratureZones of Maximal Translatability: Borderspace and Women’s TimeA Search for Colonial Histories: The Conquest by Yxta Maya MurrayTransforming Borders: Resistant Liminality in Beloved, Song of Solomon, and ParadiseGone Over on the Other Side:” Passing in Chesnutt’s The House Behind the CedarsQueering and Gendering Aztlán: Anzaldúa’s Feminist Reshaping of the Chicana/o Nation in the U.S Mexico BorderlandsAchilles and the (Sexual) History of Being Borderland Spaces of the Third Kind: Erotic Agency in Plato and Octavia ButlerAlice's Parallel Series: Carroll, Deleuze, and the ‘Stuttering Sense’ of the WorldCultural Liminality: Gender, Identity, and Margin in the Uncanny Stories of Elizabeth BowenCrossing the Utopian / Apocalyptic Border: The Anxiety of Forgetting in Paul Auster’s In the Country of Last Things.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.11.2017
• Zusatzinfo: XIII, 281 p.
• Verlagsort: Cham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Achilles • Anzaldua • Ethnicity • Green Line • Race
• ISBN-10: 3-319-67813-2 / 3319678132
• ISBN-13: 978-3-319-67813-9 / 9783319678139