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This book calls for an investigation of the ›borderlands of narrativity‹ - the complex and culturally productive area where the symbolic form of narrative meets other symbolic logics, such as data(base), play, spectacle, or ritual. It opens up a conversation about the ›beyond‹ of narrative, about the myriad constellations in which narrativity interlaces with, rubs against, or morphs into the principles of other forms. To conceptualize these borderlands, the book introduces the notion of »narrative liminality,« which the 16 articles utilize to engage literature, popular culture, digital technology, historical artifacts, and other kinds of texts from a time span of close to 200 years.

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"Rory Stewart longe à pied le mur d’Hadrien, bâti autour de l’an 120 aux confins de la Britannia romaine pour la protéger des incursions barbares. Sur cette frontière chevauchant celle qui sépare aujourd’hui l’Angleterre de l’Écosse, où le parti indépendantiste est majoritaire, il retrouve son père, Brian, pour un ultime dialogue. Écossais, ils ont servi la Couronne. Le père, sinophone, fut l’un des patrons des services secrets de Sa Majesté en Asie. Le fils, né à Hong Kong en 1973, arabisant, fut gouverneur adjoint en Irak après l’invasion de 2003. Il est député de la circonscription anglaise de Penrith and The Border et ministre. Cet infatigable marcheur a déjà parcouru 9 000 km en Afghanistan en 2002 ; le récit de ce périple est un «chef-d’œuvre tout simplement » selon le New York Times. La description lyrique de paysages sauvages égratignés par la modernité convoque Histoire et mémoire, nouant un dialogue passionné entre Brian et Rory. Ils confrontent leurs vies aux vestiges impériaux de Rome et de Londres, tissant un récit de filiation qui enfante les grands débats de notre temps. À l’heure où le Brexit déchire notre voisin et partenaire, où l’Europe se cherche au péril des nationalismes, populismes et mondialisation, ce document extraordinaire remet l’homme au cœur des enjeux politiques du Vieux Continent"

Borderlands --- Borderlands --- Borderlands --- Borderlands --- Stewart, Rory

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Borderlands --- Imperialism --- Borderlands. --- Imperialism. --- History --- Europe --- Europe.

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"Contemporary challenges related to walls, borders and encirclement, such as migration, integration, and endemic historical conflicts, can only be understood properly from a long-term perspective. This book seeks to go beyond conventional definitions of the long durée by locating the social practice of walling and encirclement in the broadest context of human history, integrating insights from archaeology and anthropology. Such an approach, far from being simply academic, has crucial contemporary relevance, as its focus on origins helps to locate the essential dynamics of this practice, and provides a rare external position from which to view the phenomenon as a transformative exercise, with the area walled serving as an artificial womb or matrix. The modern world, with its ingrained ideas of borders, nation states and other entities, often makes it is very difficult to gain a critical distance and detachment to see beyond conventional perspectives. The unique approach of this book offers an antidote to this problem. Cases discussed in the book range from Palaeolithic caves, the ancient walls of Göbekli Tepe, Jericho, and Babylon, to the foundation of Rome, the Chinese Empire, medieval Europe and the Berlin Wall. The book also looks at contemporary developments such as the Palestinian wall, Eastern and Southern European examples, Trump's proposed Mexican wall, the use of Greece as a bulwark containing migration flows, and the transformative experience of voluntary work in a Calcutta hospice. In doing so, the book offers a political anthropology of one of the most fundamental yet perennially problematic human practices: the constructing of walls. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology, anthropology, and political theory"--

Boundaries --- Borderlands --- Liminality