History of Nowhere

Narratives of the European Border: A History of Nowhere is an extended study of shifting European borders in twentieth-century literature. A work of literary geography, the book negotiates theories of place and space before studying texts - by Italo Svevo, Joseph Roth, Rebecca West, James Joyce and Kazuo Ishiguro - drawn from a variety of national canons. Comparing how interstitial spaces have been transmuted into fictional settings, Richard Robinson argues that 'Nowhere' is a political territory which has assumed an aesthetic form. In Central and Eastern Europe, where empire and nation have frequently been in conflict, the border condition is not anomalous but commonplace: Narratives of the European Border is in part an investigation into the practices of colonial occupation and national self-determination. Although it mainly concentrates on the radical border transformations of the interwar period, the book also considers more recent responses to the Cold War map.

שנה

2007

שפה

English

הוצאה

Palgrave Macmillan

מהדורות

1

עמודים

256

ISBN

9781403987204

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata