B/Orders Unbound

The volume presents fifteen essays and brings together scholars who share a common interest in transgressing borders in literatures. The book is determined to encourage border violations, and each paper tackles the issue of border crossing in different realms and territories.

Contemporary literature concerns itself with transgressing borders and destabilizing hierarchical orders. Border crossing to question the given limits and orthodox beliefs brings many disciplines and diverse experiences together, and the result is a myriad of ways of expressing the alternatives when the established boundaries are liberated. The volume presents fifteen essays and brings together many academics and scholars who share a common interest in transgressing borders in literatures. The book is determined to encourage border violations, and each paper tackles the issue of border crossing in different realms and territories.

Autorentext

Sule Okuroglu Ozun holds a PhD in English literature with a thesis on Anita Desai, Kamala Markandaya and Meera Syal. Her research interests include identity politics and diaspora literatures. Mustafa Kirca holds a PhD in English literature with a thesis on Winterson s and Rushdie s novels as historiographic metafictions. His research interests include parodic re-writing and metafiction in contemporary novel.

Inhalt

Border transgression contemporary novel postmodern fiction postcolonial literature deconstruction diaspora Coetzee Kureishi trauma metafiction parody intertextuality liminality hybridity national identity Britishness third space multiculturalism Orientalism war literature gender.