Rethinking Identities Across Boundaries

 

1 Bordering Genders, Genres, Genera: An Introduction Claudia Capancioni, Mariaconcetta Costantini, and Mara Mattoscio.- 2 Biometric Technologies, Gendered Subjectivities, and Artistic Resistance C.L. Quinan.- 3 'My tongue doesn't believe in boundaries': A®tivism Across the US/Mexico Border Lorena Carbonara and Dora Renna.- 4 Migrant Women's Documentary Filmmaking: Shifting Positionalities and Precarious Creativity in the Experience of Five Latin American Directors Dalila Missero.- 5 'I've always thought that we are living on the cowhide': Chen Li's Edge as Method and Border-Queering in The Edge of the Island Li-hsin Hsu.- 6 Crossing the Borders of Genders and Genres: Akwaeke Emezi's Freshwater as a World-Making Narrative of Identity Reaffirmation Alessandra Di Pietro.- 7 Mobility, Belonging and the Utopia of a Borderless World: A Spatial and Identitarian Reading of Imbolo Mbue's Behold theDreamers Mariaconcetta Costantini.- 8 'Violent Conclusions' versus 'Hopeful Returns': Zadie Smith's The Embassy of Cambodia and the Performative Border-Crossing of the Narrative Voice Mara Mattoscio.- 9 Morphing Forms: Metamorphosis in Twenty-First Century British Women's Experimental Short Fiction Helen Cousins.- 10 'This particular art [is] all about walls': Nomadic Poetics of Identity in Ali Smith's How to be both Claudia Capancioni.- 11 Oblique Emotions and Border Intimacies in Dionne Brand's Theory Libe García Zarranz 12 An Unresolved Crossing: David Foster Wallace's 'Oblivion' Adriano Ardovino and Pia Masiero.- 13 Crossing Gender: Andy Warhol's Candy Darling, America and Angela Carter's The Passion of New Eve Marie Mulvey-Roberts.- 14 Genders, GYnealogies, GYne(co)alogies of Decolonial Geo-thalasso-corpographies: A Theoretical Reflection on Interconnectedness in Gender Configurations Paola Zaccaria.- 15 Spivak and Sontag:

Claudia Capancioni is Reader in English Literature at Bishop Grosseteste University, UK. She specialises in Victorian and contemporary women writers, life and travel writing, and gender studies.

Mariaconcetta Costantini is Full Professor of English Literature at G. d'Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy. She specialises in Victorian and contemporary literature, especially in popular fiction, women writers, and the Gothic.

Mara Mattoscio teaches English Literature and Culture at the University of Macerata, Italy. She specialises in Anglophone postcolonial literature and film, race and gender studies, and critical theory.