Borders in literature
Borders in literature

Summary/Abstract: In a globalised world with more open and seemingly more easily crossed borders of countries, ethnic groups, languages, cultures, disciplines, ideologies, poetics, genders, political programmes, economic orders, what is familiar and what is foreign, aesthetics and politics – there is an increasing need for lasting meanings, values and protected space for thought and action. In other words, in our fluid modernity, under the alleged threat of an impending wave of instability, mutation and suppression of the last forms of authenticity, there is a call for rehabilitation of stable boundaries. Ironically, re-fixing them would give us back the freedom to separate and the opportunity to free ourselves from so-called trans-ideologies, which force us to accept the precariat and temporariness, with all forms of impermanence resulting from abandoning clear and permanent divisions.

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