Borders separate but in addition attach self and different, and literary texts not just enact those bordering methods, yet shape a part of such approaches. This ebook gestures in the direction of a without borders international, stepping, because it have been, with thousand-mile boots from south to north (even around the Atlantic), from South Africa to Scandinavia. It additionally exhibits how literary texts version and rework borders and bordering methods in wealthy and significant neighborhood contexts. The essays assembled right here examine the crossing and negotiation of borders and limits in works by means of Nadine Gordimer, Ingrid Winterbach, Deneys Reitz, Janet Suzman, Marlene van Niekerk, A.S. Byatt, Thomas Harris, Frank A. Jenssen, Eben Venter, Antjie Krog, and others lower than diversified symptoms or conceptual issues of charm. those indicators contain a non secular flip, eventfulness, self-understanding, ethnic and linguistic mobilization, performative chronotopes, the ugly, the carceral, the rhetorical, and the interstitial. members: Ileana Dimitriu, Heilna du Plooy, John Gouws, Anne Heith, Lida Krüger, Susan Meyer, Adéle Nel, Ellen Rees, Johan Schimanski, Tony Ullyatt, Phil van Schalkwyk, Hein Viljoen.
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