Uncertain Territories: Boundaries in Cultural Analysis (GENUS: Gender in Modern Culture 7)

Table of Contents: List of Figures Editors Preface Introduction Part I: The Function of Boundaries 1. The World Beyond my Window: Nomads, Travelling Theories and the Function of Boundaries 2. Public Violence Hits Home: Civil War and the Destruction of Privacy 3. Uncertain Territories: Travel as Exchange Part II: Matter In and Out of Space 4. No-Man's-Land? Deserts and the Politics of Place 5. Just a Fashion? Cultural Cross-Dressing 6. Border Fetishism: Negotiable Authenticity Part III: Placing Inge E. Boer Murat Aydemir: 7. Impressions Of Character: Hari Kunzru s 'The Impressionist' Annelies Moors: 8. From Travelogue to Ethnography and Back Again? Hilma Granqvist s Writings and Photographs Maria Boletsi: 9. Between Hospitality and Hostility: Crossing Balkan Borders in Adela Peeva s 'Whose is this Song?' Begüm Özden Firat: 10.Borders of the Art World, Boundaries of the Artwork: On Contemporary Art from the Islamic World Isabel Hoving: 11.Giving Life: Inge Boer s Postcolonial Theory Bibliography List of Contributors Index of Names and Places Index of Terms and Concepts