Narrative Der Grenze

This volume features contributions addressing the issues of borders and their manifestations in literary texts. Border narratives refer to different aspects of the border - its historical and territorial form, its relativity and the very nature of this construct. At the centre there are authors - as travellers, borders crossers, migrants, exiles- and corresponding literary figures. In their ambivalent structure, borders appear as insurmountable and protective, but also permeable and open entities. The collected texts criticise the will to isolate oneself against the other and foreign elements as a loss of energy, but also stress the ethical necessity of borders. Furthermore, the authors emphasise the aspects of crossing spatial, linguistic or temporal borders as well as going beyond textual and genre boundaries.