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Nordlit, 2009
The essays in this issue of Nordlit focus on how historical and contemporary border discourses, e... more The essays in this issue of Nordlit focus on how historical and contemporary border discourses, expressive and aesthetic representations, are generated, circulated, and interpreted in both local and global contexts.
Journal of Borderlands Studies, 2010
American Studies in Scandinavia, 2004
American Studies in Scandinavia, 2011
Absh·act: 1l'avel and captivity are always writ/en on the body. The body is a borde1; like th... more Absh·act: 1l'avel and captivity are always writ/en on the body. The body is a borde1; like that of the nation state or the society which can be a barrier but also a threshold. This paper will argue that works of captivity, enslavement, and racial difference in the United States during the period 1816-1818 are polemically structured around distinctions writ/en on the body of captivities as if they embody the borders of a 11ational community. The three narratives discussed are by Robert Adams, Judah Paddock, and William Riley. Each of these narratives sold well 011 both sides of tire Atlantic and were published in u number of diJ/erentformats including pamphlets, illustrated well-bound editions, children s versions, as well as abridged and magazine editions. In the second sectio11. of the paper, I will establish the shared patterns these texts follow und then turn to their significant differences in focus. The patterns established in these three texts give a way to evaluate how ea...
Journal of Borderlands Studies, 2010
The cultural production of borders can be as read as referring to part of the economy, as an aest... more The cultural production of borders can be as read as referring to part of the economy, as an aesthetic site of creativity and border negotiation, and a cultural factor in the bordering process. The need to understand these cultural dimensions of borders and borderlands has lead to interdisciplinary interest in narratives, aesthetic forms, and cultural memory. Border poetics and related forms of spatial poetics can provide fruitful approaches to specific literary texts, films and other artworks, as well as to bordering in general. This special dossier for the Journal of Borderlands Studies presents papers from the 2008 ABS European conference in Kirkenes, which had “Cultural Production and Negotiation of Borders” as its theme and which brought together a wide range of researchers from both the social sciences and the humanities, raising questions about the role of culture in borderlands and also focusing on borders in Sub-Arctic Europe. The following selection of papers addresses fil...
European journal of American studies, 2012
Nordlit, 2009
The essays in this issue of Nordlit focus on how historical and contemporary border discourses, e... more The essays in this issue of Nordlit focus on how historical and contemporary border discourses, expressive and aesthetic representations, are generated, circulated, and interpreted in both local and global contexts.
Journal of Borderlands Studies, 2010
American Studies in Scandinavia, 2004
American Studies in Scandinavia, 2011
Absh·act: 1l'avel and captivity are always writ/en on the body. The body is a borde1; like th... more Absh·act: 1l'avel and captivity are always writ/en on the body. The body is a borde1; like that of the nation state or the society which can be a barrier but also a threshold. This paper will argue that works of captivity, enslavement, and racial difference in the United States during the period 1816-1818 are polemically structured around distinctions writ/en on the body of captivities as if they embody the borders of a 11ational community. The three narratives discussed are by Robert Adams, Judah Paddock, and William Riley. Each of these narratives sold well 011 both sides of tire Atlantic and were published in u number of diJ/erentformats including pamphlets, illustrated well-bound editions, children s versions, as well as abridged and magazine editions. In the second sectio11. of the paper, I will establish the shared patterns these texts follow und then turn to their significant differences in focus. The patterns established in these three texts give a way to evaluate how ea...
Journal of Borderlands Studies, 2010
The cultural production of borders can be as read as referring to part of the economy, as an aest... more The cultural production of borders can be as read as referring to part of the economy, as an aesthetic site of creativity and border negotiation, and a cultural factor in the bordering process. The need to understand these cultural dimensions of borders and borderlands has lead to interdisciplinary interest in narratives, aesthetic forms, and cultural memory. Border poetics and related forms of spatial poetics can provide fruitful approaches to specific literary texts, films and other artworks, as well as to bordering in general. This special dossier for the Journal of Borderlands Studies presents papers from the 2008 ABS European conference in Kirkenes, which had “Cultural Production and Negotiation of Borders” as its theme and which brought together a wide range of researchers from both the social sciences and the humanities, raising questions about the role of culture in borderlands and also focusing on borders in Sub-Arctic Europe. The following selection of papers addresses fil...
European journal of American studies, 2012