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26 janvier 2022
- doi: 10.4000/books.pus.30105
- isbn: 9791034401260
- eisbn: 9791034403813
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
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frontière monde anglophone littérature cartographie transgression culturelle border English-speaking world literature cartography cultural transgression Humanities, Multidisciplinary Literature LIT000000 DSSujets proches
Disputes, Boundary Frontier troubles Borders Frontiers (Boundaries) Geographic boundaries Boundary disputes Territorial boundaries Political boundaries World literature Western literature (Western countries) Belles-lettresCiter ce document
Sara Arami, « Undermining Borders in The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf », Presses universitaires de Strasbourg, ID : 10.4000/books.pus.30105
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By definition immigration involves the act of border crossing, an act which also highlights all the other borders—social, discursive and imaginary—that are part of framing a national identity. These borders work together to keep some people, in this case those belonging to the nation, in and others out. As a result, immigrants are generally aware of the existence of those (border)lines, whose physical reality (if they have one at all) has often come after their imagined existence in the minds...