Debarati Sanyal

Arts of the Border

Fugitive Bodies at Europe's Edges

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Produktbeschreibung

Examining Europeâ s borders and their artistic representations as an archive both of state violence and of refusal, fugitivity, and imagination.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• New ed
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 484g
• ISBN-13: 9781531512132
• ISBN-10: 1531512135
• Artikelnr.: 73789823

Autorenporträt

Debarati Sanyal is Professor of French and Zaffaroni Family Chair of Undergraduate Education (2024–29) at the University of California, Berkeley, where she directs the Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry. She is the author of Memory and Complicity: Migrations of Holocaust Remembrance (2015) translated in French as Mémoire et complicité: Au prisme de la Shoah (2019) and The Violence of Modernity: Baudelaire, Irony and the Politics of Form (2006).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1
1 Documenting the Undocumented: Cinematic Asylum in La Blessure 17
Interlude 1: Ethics, Politics, and Biometrics of the Face 31
2 Airport Borders: From Security’s Gaze to Torture’s Touch 34
3 Calais’s "Jungle": Refugees, Biopolitics, and Arts of the Body 61
Interlude 2: Swerving from Camp to Polis 93
4 Humanitarian Detention and Children 97
Interlude 3: Children, Racialization, and Agency (Syria/Ukraine/Gaza) 116
5 Messengers from the Euro-African Border:
Testimony between Allegory and Documentary 124
6 Swarm, Storm: The Life-Worlds of Those Who Jump 148
Coda 163
Acknowledgments 177
Notes 179
Index 227