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Border Crossings

Mapping Identities in Modern Europe

by Peter Wagstaff (Volume editor)
©2004 Edited Collection 256 Pages
Series: European Connections, Volume 16

Summary

This volume assesses the importance of border crossings in the evolution of European culture and identity, as reflected in the work of modern European writers and film-makers. Contributors chart the processes of transition from stability to change, from the known to the culturally unsettled, treating the themes of migration, exile, allegiance and belonging, journey, marginality, the legacy of war and displacement, memory and the denial of memory. What emerges is a cross-disciplinary reappraisal of the concept of identity, in which fixity is replaced by movement, and in which the dynamic process of story-telling, with its narratives of migration, exile, and borders crossed, mirrors the shifting and nomadic pluralities of modern existence.

Details

Pages
256
Publication Year
2004
ISBN (Softcover)
9783039102792
Language
English
Keywords
Europa Literatur Soziokultureller Wandel Identität kadare, ismail angelopoulos, theo Tarkovskii, Andrei Galich, Alexander Berger, John Catalonia Aufsatzsammlung Losey, Joseph
Published
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2004. 256 pp.

Biographical notes

Peter Wagstaff (Volume editor)

The Editor: Peter Wagstaff is Senior Lecturer in French and European Studies at the University of Bath. Publications include Memory and Desire: Rétif de la Bretonne, Autobiography and Utopia (1996), Regionalism in the European Union (1999) and Cultures of Exile: Images of Displacement (co-editor, Berghahn, 2004).

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