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Borders and Border Crossings in the Contemporary British Short Story

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  • Represents a contribution to both border studies and short story studies
  • Focuses on the ways in which the contemporary British short story mirrors, questions, and engages with border issues in national and individual life
  • Includes chapters that address the various ways in which contemporary stories engage with our newly bordered world and borders within contemporary Britain
  • Demonstrates the varied and complex ways in which British short stories in the twenty-first century engage with the concept of the border

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This book represents a contribution to both border studies and short story studies. In today’s world, there is ample evidence of the return of borders worldwide: as material reality, as a concept, and as a way of thinking. This collection of critical essays focuses on the ways in which the contemporary British short story mirrors, questions and engages with border issues in national and individual life. At the same time, the concept of the border, as well as neighbouring notions of liminality and intersectionality, is used to illuminate the short story’s unique aesthetic potential. The first section, “Geopolitics and Grievable Lives”, includes chapters that address the various ways in which contemporary stories engage with our newly bordered world and borders within contemporary Britain. The second section examines how British short stories engage with “Ethnicity and Liminal Identities”, while the third, “Animal Encounters and Metamorphic Bodies”, focuses on stories concernedwith epistemological borders and borderlands of existence and identity. Taken together, the chapters in this volume demonstrate the varied and complex ways in which British short stories in the twenty-first century engage with the concept of the border.

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Ethnicity and Liminal Identities

  2. The Short Story, Borders and Intermediality

Editors and Affiliations

  • English Department, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

    Barbara Korte

  • University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

    Laura Mª Lojo-Rodríguez

About the editors

Barbara Korte is a Professor of English Literature at the University of Freiburg, Germany. 

Laura Mª Lojo-Rodríguez is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain.


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