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Rethinking Identities Across Boundaries

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Editors:
  1. Claudia Capancioni

    1. Department of English, Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln, UK

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  2. Mariaconcetta Costantini

    1. Gabriele d’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara, Pescara, Italy

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  3. Mara Mattoscio

    1. University of Macerata, Macerata, Italy

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  • The volume offers an interdisciplinary examination of the significance of border studies in the contemporary world
  • This book provides an innovative take on the changing genera of borders at the intersection between gender and genre
  • The volume explores identity-making processes in relation to borders in/across diverse media, arts, theories, genres

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Bordering Genders, Genres, Genera: An Introduction

    • Claudia Capancioni, Mariaconcetta Costantini, Mara Mattoscio
    Pages 1-20

  3. Biometric Technologies, Gendered Subjectivities and Artistic Resistance

    • C. L. Quinan
    Pages 21-41

  4. ‘My tongue doesn’t believe in boundaries’: A®tivism Across the US/Mexico Border

    • Lorena Carbonara, Dora Renna
    Pages 43-65

  5. Migrant Women’s Documentary Filmmaking: Shifting Positionalities and Precarious Creativity Across Borders in the Experience of Five Latin American Directors

    • Dalila Missero
    Pages 67-85

  6. ‘I’ve always thought that we are living on the cowhide’: Chen Li’s Edge as Method and Border-Queering in The Edge of the Island

    • Li-hsin Hsu
    Pages 87-106

  7. Crossing the Borders of Genders and Genres: Akwaeke Emezi’s Freshwater as a World-Making Narrative of Identity Reaffirmation

    • Alessandra Di Pietro
    Pages 107-123

  8. Mobility, Belonging and the Utopia of a Borderless World: A Spatial and Identitarian Reading of Imbolo Mbue’s Behold the Dreamers

    • Mariaconcetta Costantini
    Pages 125-144

  9. ‘Violent conclusion[s]’ versus ‘hopeful return[s]’: Zadie Smith’s The Embassy of Cambodia and the Performative Border-Crossing of the Narrative Voice

    • Mara Mattoscio
    Pages 145-163

  10. Morphing Forms: Metamorphosis in Twenty-First-Century British Women’s Experimental Short Fiction

    • Helen Cousins
    Pages 165-182

  11. ‘This particular art [is] all about walls’: Nomadic Poetics of Identity in Ali Smith’s How to be both

    • Claudia Capancioni
    Pages 183-201

  12. Oblique Emotions and Border Intimacies in Dionne Brand’s Theory

    • Libe García Zarranz
    Pages 203-217

  13. An Unresolved Crossing: David Foster Wallace’s ‘Oblivion’

    • Adriano Ardovino, Pia Masiero
    Pages 219-236

  14. Crossing Gender: Andy Warhol’s Candy Darling, America, and Angela Carter’s The Passion of New Eve

    • Marie Mulvey-Roberts
    Pages 237-256

  15. Genders, GYnealogies, GYne(co)alogies of Decolonial Geo-thalasso-corpographies: A Theoretical Reflection on Interconnectedness in Gender Configurations

    • Paola Zaccaria
    Pages 257-276

  16. Spivak and Sontag: Deconstructing Borders Through a Philosophical Appraisal of Literature

    • Chiara Scarlato
    Pages 277-292

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 293-303
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About this book

This collection of essays aims to widen the current critique on borders by examining their entanglements with constructions of identity and disciplinary categories. In particular, it calls into question established models of gender, notions of narrative genres and typological genera of borders in today’s literary, artistic, philosophical, and socio-political discourse. The chapters interrogate boundaries and boundary-crossing not only in terms of geographical frontiers and the physical acts of trespassing, but also as discursive constructs that police crossing subjects as gendered subjects, on the one hand, and identify artistic genres and academic disciplines as fixed, sealed-in ways of understanding the world, on the other. Taking inspiration from the multiple meanings of the Italian word genere (which stands for “gender”, “genre”, and “typology”/“genus” simultaneously), the volume reflects on the gendered, narrative, and typological nature of borders and border imagery, and on the significance and potentialities of crossover phenomena taking place in borderlands, in the fields of arts, literature, anthropology, sociology and philosophy.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of English, Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln, UK

    Claudia Capancioni

  • Gabriele d’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara, Pescara, Italy

    Mariaconcetta Costantini

  • University of Macerata, Macerata, Italy

    Mara Mattoscio

About the editors

Claudia Capancioni is Reader in English Literature at Bishop Grosseteste University, UK. She specialises in Victorian and contemporary women writers, life and travel writing, and gender studies.

Mariaconcetta Costantini is Full Professor of English Literature at G. d’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy. She specialises in Victorian and contemporary literature, especially in popular fiction, women writers, and the Gothic.

Mara Mattoscio teaches English Literature and Culture at the University of Macerata, Italy. She specialises in Anglophone postcolonial literature and film, race and gender studies, and critical theory.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Rethinking Identities Across Boundaries

  • Book Subtitle: Genders/Genres/Genera

  • Editors: Claudia Capancioni, Mariaconcetta Costantini, Mara Mattoscio

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40795-6

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-40794-9Published: 23 November 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-40797-0Due: 24 December 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-40795-6Published: 22 November 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 303

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Media and Communication, Migration

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