Border-crossing Between Anguish and Exchange: Approaches to the Duality of Borderlines and Borderlands
Border-crossing Between Anguish and Exchange: Approaches to the Duality of Borderlines and Borderlands

Summary/Abstract: The paper aims to discuss borderlines and borderlands, focusing on aspects connected to the cultural identity of the communities living on borderlands or divided by frontiers of some kind, yet united through other means. Various approaches concerning what we have discussed as the dual nature of borders are presented, the examples supporting the theoretical background being drawn from Ireland, physically divided between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. The conclusion emphasizes the necessity of a unifying vision, meant to accommodate identity and otherness across border.

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