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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 concerned with 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.
Introduction: Border(ing)s in Contemporary Short Stories of the British Isles
págs. 1-17
págs. 21-38
Refugee Fictions: Brexit and the Maintenance of Borders in the European Union
págs. 39-60
The Border Lives of the Unmourned: Olumide Popoola’s Refugee Stories “Counting Down” and “Expect Me”
págs. 61-76
Global Travel and In/Voluntary Border Crossings: Anne Enright’s “The Hotel”
págs. 77-94
A Permeable Fortress: European Tales of Global Conflict
Ulrike Zimmermann
págs. 95-111
Stranded in a Border Zone: Traumatic Liminality in Black British Short Stories
págs. 115-131
págs. 133-148
págs. 149-167
Indifferent Borders: Confined and Liminal Spaces in Sarah Hall’s “Bees”
págs. 171-186
Human into Animal: Post-anthropomorphic Transformations in Sarah Hall’s “Mrs Fox”
págs. 187-204
págs. 205-223
págs. 225-243
Strangers at the Gates: Intermediality, Borders and the Short Story
págs. 247-263
págs. 265-283
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