Project Publications

• A collection of essays Border Poetics De-Limited (eds. Johan Schimanski & Stephen Wolfe, Laatzen: Wehrhahn, 2007, ISBN 3–86525–033–5, ca. 25 euros) will be published by Wehrhahn at the beginning of 2007.
Border poetics is a set of strategies for analyzing the crossing of borders or territories, the creation of frontiers, or the failed crossing of national or symbolic borders; that is, to analyze and identify processes of border-making and border permeability in contemporary societies. This book explores the possibilities and limitations of such strategies through theoretical essays and through close readings of actions and experiences of "bordering" significant political, national, cultural, or aesthetic frontiers in literature, film, and art. In doing so, it argues for the intimate connection between borders and narrative, and establishes a shared vocabulary of study and reflection with which to discuss narratives of bordering. Bringing together contributions by academics from different regional traditions of border studies in literary and cultural studies, it is also timely reminder of the globality of border experience.
CONTENTS:
1. Johan Schimanski & Stephen Wolfe “Entry Points: An Introduction” - 2. David Newman “The Lines that Continue to Separate Us: Borders in Our ’Borderless’ World”
I. ÆSTHETICS - 3. Rüdiger Görner “Notes on the Culture of Borders” - 4. Wolfgang Müller-Funk - “Space and Border: Simmel, Waldenfels, Musil” - 5. Svend Erik Larsen “Border Poetics? Boundaries--Ontology, Methods and Analysis”
II. MEDIA - 6. Debra A. Castillo “Borders, Identities, Objects” - 7. Reinhold Görling “Topology of Borders in Turkish-German Cinema” - 8. Lene Johannessen - “De-Symbolization and The Cultural Act”
III. ZONES - 9. Malene Vest Hansen “Public Places--Private Spaces: Site-Specific Blurring of Boundaries in Sophie Calle’s Jerusalem Projects” - 10. Jane Aaron “Border Blues: Representing the Welsh Borders in Twentieth-Century Anglophone Literature”
IV. READING - 11. Johan Schimanski & Stephen Wolfe - “Imperial Tides: A Border Poetics Reading of Heart of Darkness“