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... narration. It is also a “big, ambitious novel,” one that mobilizes maximalist and encyclopedic narrative tendencies to confront the challenge of telling the knotty, bifurcating, ongoing story of the US-Mexico border crisis. Scholarship has suggested that one of the strengths of encyclopedic fiction, one...

...Patricia Stuelke This essay analyzes Valeria Luiselli's 2019 novel Lost Children Archive 's attempt to imagine anti‐imperialist solidarity aesthetics in a moment of the increasing imbrication of the US literary sphere and settler colonial capitalist surveillance of the US‐Mexico border, as well...

... holds a unique capacity to undermine the still-powerful cultural myth of the self-sustaining, solitary traveler. The effort to re-create a journey in turn refocuses our attention on travel writing's status as a border genre between fiction and nonfiction. Tracing the physical and textual pathways...

... to those whose aspirations require self-conscious blindness to the complexities and hurdles to effortless movement across borders in the globalized economy. James Arnett is assistant professor of English at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. His work has appeared in Ariel, LIT: Literature...

... by the Dutch.” New York Times 21 May 2001 . Appardurai Arjun . Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization . Minneapolis : U of Minnesota P , 1996 . Balibar Etienne . “The Borders of Europe.” Trans. Swenson J. . Cosmpolitics: Thinking and Feeling Beyond...

... and realism, modernism and Orientalism, Western renditions of Chineseness and the presentation of Chineseness by Chinese artists themselves. Because LPS literally and metaphorically traveled beyond national borders, I argue that it can be thought of a work of diasporic culture even though this play's...

... Canelo ( 2022 ) asserts that “undocumented immigrants usually trust their voices to immigration activists. . . . The universe of illegal border crossing is about radical experiences of invisibility, misidentification, erasure, dispossession, and disappearance.” Over time, this invisibility leaves...

.... with Field Day , 1996 . —. “Guests of the Nation: Ireland, Immigration, and Post-Colonial Solidarity.” “Race” Panic and the Memory of Migration . Eds. Morris Meaghan Bary Brett de . Hong Kong : Hong Kong UP , 2001 . 79 - 102 . Gómez-Peña Guillermo . Dangerous Border Crossers...

... formation such as GENRE XXXVIII - WINTER 2005 - 371-388. COPYRIGHT © 2006 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA. ALL RIGHTS OF REPRODUCTION IN ANY FORM RESERVED. 372 GENRE citizenship, racial identity, gender, patriarchy, and spatial categories such as the borders...

.... National Archives , London , BT 31/20889/123946 . Braveboy-Wagner Jacqueline Anne . The Venezuela-Guyana Border Dispute: Britain's Colonial Legacy in Latin America . Boulder, CO : Westview , 1983 . Brown Charles Barrington . Canoe and Camp Life in British Guiana . London : Edward...

.... The conceptual framework of Chicano/a border space additionally concerns itself with an asser- tion of self and of dignity in the spheres of geopolitical territory, language, cul- ture, and hybrid identity. Borderlands discourse is unquestionably both timely and necessary, but while recognition of cultural...

... of a continuous cityscape or connective state beyond village borders: behind the town, a cliff face obscures any sense of the world beyond, and the characters never mention the rest of the world. If Popeye were to escape the nightmare of the cartoon world he inhabits, it would only be out to sea like Bluto...

... That I Know About Culture .'' Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 5.3 ( Sept. 9 , 1999 ): 399 - 421 . Saldívar José David . Border Matters: Remapping American Cultural Studies . Berkeley : California , 1997 . Saunders Frances Stonor . The Cultural Cold War...

... force upon the von Trapps the necessity of moun- tain climbing. The Alps, however, are never so much scaled as conceptually repurposed. In the original Broadway production though not in the Hollywood musical, Captain von Trapp, when he hears that the Alpine borders have been sealed against his...

... to visit a group of geoglyphs in the Sonoran Desert called the Blythe Intaglios, outside Blythe, California, along the Colorado River separating California from Arizona. These massive glyphs are scraped into the same desert whose hostility the US Border Patrol has recruited in its cynical policy...

... Is Dead’ and Any Irish Border is ‘Legitimate Target for Attack.’  ” Irish Post , October 17 . www.irishpost.com/news/new-ira-good-friday-agreement-dead-brexit-border-target-172613 . Burns Anna . 2001 . No Bones . New York : Norton . Burns Anna . 2018a . “  ‘I've Been Homeless...

... GENRE scales of perception of individual orientation in relation to cosmos and of small- er scales of belonging such as region and nationalized borders, and vision and embodiment.2 The paradoxical lure of the globe icon appears in the familiar cartoon globe typically appearing on T...

... “Writing Refugee Crisis in the Age of Amazon: Lost Children Archive 's Reenactment Play” teaches how Valeria Luiselli's fourth novel reveals that the cruelty of the United States’ border policy separating undocumented immigrant parents from their minor children is an extension of settler colonial...

... of McCarthy’s belated turn toward sentimentality and away from the questions of national iden- tity so prevalent in his border fiction. McCarthy may seem an unlikely writer to embrace the sentimental form given his genius for rendering unflinchingly what Dana Phillips (1996) calls “the ugly facts...

..., written up in 1980 by Lisa Fittko, who helped Benjamin to the border in September 1940. "The Story of Old Benjamin," which appears at the end of The Arcades Project, raises the possibility that the "large black briefcase" carried by Benjamin to the 'Rolf Tiedemann, "Dialectics...