Author(s): Inge E. Boer
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 327
Table of Contents......Page 6
List of Figures......Page 10
Editors' Preface......Page 12
Boundaries in the Age of Globalization......Page 16
Boundaries as Confrontations, Lines and Obstacles......Page 18
Travelling Theory......Page 21
Spaces for Negotiation......Page 24
Part I: The Function of Boundaries......Page 30
1. The World Beyond my Window: Nomads, Travelling Theories and the Function of Boundaries......Page 32
Feminism's Travels......Page 34
More Metaphors of Travel......Page 38
Urban Desert......Page 45
Feminism as Tourism......Page 51
2. Public Violence Hits Home: Civil War and the Destruction of Privacy......Page 58
When Home and the World Melt Together......Page 61
Writing for Life......Page 68
The Newness that Remains......Page 76
3. Uncertain Territories: Travel as Exchange......Page 86
Imagining Boundaries......Page 88
The Difficulty of "Writing About"......Page 94
The Traveller's Eye......Page 98
The Ambiguous Act of Unveiling......Page 103
Conclusion......Page 117
Part II: Matter In and Out of Space......Page 120
4. No-Man's-Land? Deserts and the Politics of Place......Page 122
Desert as a Platitude......Page 124
Deserts and the Oriental Other......Page 130
How Empty Spaces Get Their Name......Page 135
An Exploded Sense of Desert......Page 142
Inhabited Tracks......Page 149
On Sexiness Today......Page 154
Contemporary Odalisks......Page 157
Turqueries and Masquerades......Page 160
Exchanging Information, Negotiating Power......Page 169
Cross-Dressing the In-Between......Page 174
Revisiting Boundaries......Page 176
Authenticity and Framing......Page 182
Contested Presence......Page 185
Rituals of Imitation......Page 189
Death Wish to Cult Value......Page 193
Touring Absences......Page 197
Intertextuality and Frameworks......Page 202
A Final Tour d'Horizon......Page 207
Part III: Placing Inge E. Boer......Page 212
7. Impressions Of Character: Hari Kunzru's The Impressionist......Page 214
Impressionism......Page 216
Hybridity......Page 221
Travesty......Page 223
Mimicry......Page 225
Nomadism......Page 227
The Portrait Peels (Off)......Page 231
8. From Travelogue to Ethnography and Back Again? Hilma Granqvist's Writings and Photographs......Page 234
Out of History I......Page 236
Out of History II......Page 239
On Dressing Styles and Women's Subordination......Page 243
Karen Seger......Page 247
9. Between Hospitality and Hostility: Crossing Balkan Borders in Adela Peeva's Whose is this Song?......Page 254
The Song's Impossible Truth......Page 258
Welcome to the Balkans......Page 263
Towards an Ethics of Hospitality......Page 267
The Past in the Present......Page 271
10. Borders of the Art World, Boundaries of the Artwork: On "Contemporary Art from the Islamic World"......Page 274
"Contemporary Art from the Islamic World"......Page 276
Contemporary Islamic Art......Page 279
Veil – The Exhibition......Page 281
Boundaries Of the Veil, Veil As the Border......Page 284
11. Giving Life: Inge Boer's Postcolonial Theory......Page 294
The Fight Over Said's Legacy, and the Problem of "The Political"......Page 295
Reading "The Political" as "The Economic"......Page 299
Reading "The Political" as Text......Page 302
What Postcolonial Theory is About......Page 303
Bibliography......Page 308
List of Contributors......Page 324
B......Page 326
F......Page 327
I......Page 328
M......Page 329
R......Page 330
W......Page 331
Z......Page 332
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D......Page 335
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V......Page 341
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