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Borders in the English-Speaking World

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Sandrine Baudry
, 
Hélène Ibata
, 
Monica Manolescu

Part IV. NAVIGATING LIMINAL SPACES

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

Amandine Guyot

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At the end of the 19th century, the borders of the British Empire were already permeable, even though imperial authority craved for secure and immutable places, enclosed by manageable lines of exclusion. Indeed, the primary result of a border is to both exclude and include in the same dividing move, drawing a line to distinguish the One from the Other.

Although space is crossed by various borders, they play different roles and have various structuring effects, not always equivalent. This paper focuses on a recent redefinition of the concept of border, as a social technology with which to analyse the identities’ construction operations, both material and symbolic, as political effects1. More or less unstable, at times rigid or blurred, borders take on various spatial forms, but all of them entail a complex ambivalent game between connection and separation, rupture and transition, therefore powerfully and lastingly impacting the space on which they are inscribed. Subsuming the normativ...

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Université Sorbonne Paris Nord

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