This interdisciplinary volume explores the role of images and narratives in different borderscapes. Written by experienced scholars in the field, Border images, border narratives provides fresh insight into how borders, borderscapes, and migration are imagined and narrated in public and private spheres. Offering new ways to approach the political aesthetics of the border and its ambiguities, this volume makes a valuable contribution to the methodological renewal of border studies and presents ways of discussing cultural representations of borders and related processes.

Influenced by the thinking of philosopher Jacques Ranciere, this timely volume argues that narrated and mediated images of borders and borderscapes are central to the political process, as they contribute to the public negotiation of borders and address issues such as the in/visiblity of migrants and the formation of alternative borderscapes. The contributions analyse narratives and images in literary texts, political and popular imagery, surveillance data, border art, and documentaries, as well as problems related to borderland identities, migration, and trauma. The case studies provide a highly comparative range of geographical contexts ranging from Northern Europe and Britain, via Mediterranean and Mexican-USA borderlands, to Chinese borderlands from the perspectives of critical theory, literary studies, social anthropology, media studies, and political geography.

About the Author

Johan Schimanski is Professor of Comparative Literature at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages at the University of Oslo

Jopi Nyman is Professor of English at the Philosophical Faculty at the University of Eastern Finland

Reviews

'The collection succeeds in its intended purpose to contribute towards new approaches to the relevance and workings of borders. The book is of equal interest to students of cultural and literary English studies who wish to become acquainted with border studies, as much as for well-versed researchers looking for inspiration beyond the established forms of inquiry.'
Sophie U. Kriegel, Leipzig University, Journal for the Study of British Cultures Vol. 29 Issue 1 (2022)

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Book Information
ISBN 9781526146267
Author Johan Schimanski
Format Hardback
Page Count 280
Imprint Manchester University Press
Publisher Manchester University Press
Weight(grams) 572g
Dimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 17mm