Border Crossings: Mapping Identities in Modern Europe - Couverture souple

Wagstaff, Peter

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3039102796 ISBN 13 : 9783039102792

Editeur : Verlag Peter Lang, 2004

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Verlag Peter Lang
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3039102796
• ISBN 13: 9783039102792
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 253
• Coordonnées du fabricant: r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com; r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com; ; Gontardstraße 11; Berlin; 10178; Allemagne