Table des matières

Sandrine Baudry, Monica Manolescu et Hélène Ibata

Introduction

Part I. IMPOSED BORDERS AND CONTESTED GEOGRAPHIES

Caroline Lehni

Contested Borders: Northern Irish Murals and the Visualisation of Territory

• I. Murals and the Contested Imaginative Geographies of Northern Irish Borders
• A. Borders and the Loyalist Geographical Imagination
• B. Borders and the Republican Geographical Imagination
• II. Murals, “Peacelines” and the Community Divide
• A. Murals as Fences
• B. Murals as Gateways
• C. Murals as Challenges to the Other
• Conclusion

Céline Planchou et Sandrine Baudry

A History of Shifting Settler-colonial Borders: Reading the Native/Non-Native Territorial Palimpsest in and around Rapid City, SD

• I. The History of Overlapping Geographies in and around Rapid City
• A. Submerging Native Geographies: the Reduction of the Great Sioux Reservation
• B. How the City Built Itself as a Non-Native Space
• II. The Modern Resurgence of Lakota Geographies in the City
• A. The 1970s, a Turning Point in City Planning and Race Relations
• B. 21st Century Planning and Native Space Resurgence
• 1. Public Art and Public Space
• 2. Resurgence Through Legal and Political Territorial Claims
• Conclusion: Notes on the Epistemology of Overlapping Geographies

Anna-Grace Scullion

The Decolonial Frontier: Landscape, Maps and Borders in Louise Erdrich’s Tracks

• I. Landscape and Sense of Place in Tracks
• II. Vernacular Landscape in Tracks
• III. Erdrich’s Cartographical Map
• IV. Borders in Tracks and the Decolonial Frontier
• Conclusion

Joseph Egwurube

“Indigeneity”, “Statism” and “Federal Character”: The Manufacture of Inter-communal Borders in the Federal Republic of Nigeria

• Introduction
• I. The Foundation and Origin of Nigerian Federalism
• II. Federal Character and the Spatial Differentiation of Nigeria
• III. Indigeneity and the Reinforcement of Inter-state Borders
• IV. “Statism” and Dis-amalgamation
• Conclusion

Part II. NATURAL AND SYMBOLIC BOUNDARIES

Julien Nègre

Writing Without Borders? Thoreau’s Remapping of Borders Through Language

Frédérique Spill

“One man’s tenuous hold on the earth”: The Metaphor of Barbed Wire in Ron Rash’s Writing

• I. Barbed Wire, Passion and Revenge in One Foot in Eden
• II. A Curling Metaphor
• III. “Barbed Wire,” a Poem
• Conclusion

Stefanie Lethbridge

The Past in the Present: The Black Forest in Victorian Periodicals

• I. Victorians, Periodicals and the Black Forest
• II. Pre-mediated Forest Experience
• III. Border Crossings
• IV. Looking Out of the Forest

Part III. BORDERS AND THE SHAPING OF TRANSNATIONAL IDENTITIES

Silvia Gerlsbeck

“dark strangers crossing the nation’s threshold”: Confinement and Border Crossings in the Fiction of George Lamming and Sam Selvon

• I. Seventy Years On: The Legacy of Windrush
• II. “suppose you had one island”: National and Artistic Borders in Lamming’s The Emigrants
• III. Upstairs – Downstairs: Selvon’s Moses Ascending and the (Im)Mobility of the Artist

David Bousquet

“Whey Mi Belang”: Borders of Class, Race and Gender in Reggae Lyrics and Afro-Caribbean Oral Texts

• I. Borders and Freedom of Movement for Jamaicans
• II. Borders, Refugees and the New World Order
• III. Borders, Colonialism and Rootlessness
• IV. “Rasta burn bridges”
• V. Garrisons and Internal Borders
• VI. Gender Distinctions
• Conclusion

Sara Arami

Undermining Borders in The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf

Part IV. NAVIGATING LIMINAL SPACES

Laurence Cristina

From the “Angel in the House” to the Suffragette: How the New Woman Crossed the Border Between the Private and the Public Spheres, Great Britain, 1854-1918

Amandine Guyot

Crossing Lines in Imperial India: a Geocritical Study of Subversive Transgressions in R. Kipling’s Kim and E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India

• I. Lines of Colonial Appropriation
• A. The Line Creates the Place
• B. Line as a Vector of Territorial and National Identity
• II. Line-crossing: Transgression and Subversion
• A. Kim: A Hybrid Figure
• B. Crossing Racial lines in Anglo-Indian Society: the Poison of Nationality
• III. The In-between Space of Line-crossing: Thickness of the Alternative Space
• A. In the Thick of It
• B. The Impact of Fictional Spaces Upon Referential Spaces
• Conclusion

Julia Siccardi

“You people aren’t even black anymore”: Tentative Reconfigurations of Geographical, Social and Racial Borders in Zadie Smith’s On Beauty

• I. Creating ‘Places’: Social Relations Dislocating and Re-creating Borders
• II. Institutionalized Borders: the Permanence of Physical Spaces and Social Order
• III. Subjective and Normative Borders: Dealing with Blackness and Alterity

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Credits

• 1. Contested Borders: Northern Irish Murals and the Visualisation of Territor
• 4. “Indigeneity”, “Statism” and “Federal Character”: The Manufacture of Inter-communal Borders in the Federal Republic of Nigeria
• 5. Writing Without Borders? Thoreau’s Remapping of Borders Through Language
• 11. From the “Angel in the House” to the Suffragette: How the New Woman Crossed the Border Between the Private and the Public Spheres, Great Britain, 1854-1918