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• W888961582 abstract "Borders at Encounters of Bamako 9At first glance, the present volume may seem to enact the idea of borderless world, as it steps as it were with thousand mile boots from South Africa to Norway and Sweden and even across the Atlantic to the USA, taking Russia and South Africa's Free State Province in its stride. On the other hand, it shows how fissured literary texts and ways of thinking about them are with all kinds of borders, thus bearing witness to the overarching importance of- and the many similarities between - borders and bordering processes across the globe. It thus gestures towards borderless world, but also shows how literary texts model and remodel borders and bordering processes in rich and meaningful local contexts.Michket Krifa and Laura Serani, the artistic directors of Encounters of Bamako 9 (the eighth edition of the African Photography Biennial, 2009), wrote an introduction to Borders, the central theme of the biennial. Under the heading Relationship to the Other, they sum up some of the implications of borders:Thus the border implies an idea of limited territory beyond which is the elsewhere, the otherwise and the foreign. It comforts us in our national, social and cultural identity, and secures individuals and groups through proximity networks and ties. Beyond that, the border opens onto otherness, difference. This other can be close, the neighbour, or more remote, the immigrant. The theme of the alien, corollary to the theme of the border, can thus be seen from the point of view of integration, segregation or exchange. Nevertheless, though it marks limit, the border is also place of meetings and exchanges within this in-between, aptly called No Man's Land. And so, perceived as space of demarcation or of transit, the border can become place of transformation and exchange, real or imagined territory of openness. Crossing borders can also take on symbolic aspect and represent kind of initiation or transgression.1This paragraph foregrounds the relation to the other. It also offers number of insights into what borders and the crossing of borders mean: precisely the questions that are central to this volume.In Africa - and in all the postcolonies - borders remain highly problematic. Nuruddin Farah has good reason to speak of the borders in Africa as established at the Berlin Summit of 1884 and accepted by the Organization of African Unity in 1963 as a curse of our continent.2 Bruno Boudjelal, the photographer of the theme exhibition Goudron, Tanger/Le Cap, or the Impossible Journey as part of Bamako 2009, bemoans the fact that Africans are not at liberty to circulate on their own continenf ' and regards the barriers to free circulation in Africa as important factors in the underdevelopment of the continent.3 As Krifa and Serani point out, borders serve to safeguard sovereignty and identity, but also to put such ideas at risk by allowing people to meet and exchange goods, money, art, music, ideas, stories, and technology.Crossing topographical borders thus entails physical and spiritual dislocation and alienation, but, conversely, also enriches and opens up new possibilities. Contact with other cultures and the crossing and mixing of different cultures are thus among the strongest sources of innovation in literature, art, and music. Under globalization, the crossing of real as well as symbolic and social boundaries has acquired greater salience, though, of course, crossing boundaries is an age-old theme in Western literature. Many of the great classics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, Beowulf, the Divina Commedia, Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and Ulysses, are tales of peregrination and boundary crossing.Through the study of borders and boundaries, we endeavour to move texts across linguistic and cultural borders into English and international discussion. Translation is thus an important part of the rhetoric of this collection. As such, the book aims to serve as bridge and point of communication between the local and the global, showing that ? …" @default.
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• W888961582 title "Introduction: Crossing Borders, Dissolving Boundaries" @default.
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