Uncertain territories :: boundaries in cultural analysis /

Tracing and theorizing the concept of the boundaries through literary works, visual objects and cultural phenomena, this book argues against the reification of boundaries as fixed and empty non-spaces that simply divide the world. Expanding on her previous work on gender and Orientalism, Inge Boer t...

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1. Verfasser: Boer, Inge E.
Weitere Verfasser: Bal, Mieke, 1946-, Eekelen, Bregje van, Spyer, Patricia, 1957-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2006.
Schriftenreihe:Genus--gender in modern culture ; 7.
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Zusammenfassung:Tracing and theorizing the concept of the boundaries through literary works, visual objects and cultural phenomena, this book argues against the reification of boundaries as fixed and empty non-spaces that simply divide the world. Expanding on her previous work on gender and Orientalism, Inge Boer takes us into uncertain territories of fashion and art, tourism and travel, skilfully engaging the ambivalence of boundaries, as both protecting and confining, as bringing distinction while existing by virtue of their ability to be transgressed. In her close readings of that boundaries as desert, as.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiii, 327 pages :)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-307) and indexes.
ISBN:9781429481168
1429481161
9789401203715
9401203717

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