Rethinking Identities Across Boundaries: Genders/Genres/Genera

Acknowledgments
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Images and Figure
Chapter 1: Bordering Genders, Genres, Genera: An Introduction
	Border Theorisations: An Overview
	The Volume’s Thematic Cartographies
	Moving across the Chapters
	References
Chapter 2: Biometric Technologies, Gendered Subjectivities and Artistic Resistance
	Introduction
	The Biopolitical Technology of Gender Markers
	Binary-Based Biometric Technologies
	(In)visibility and Artistic Resistance
		Zach Blas, Facial Weaponization Suite and SANCTUM
		Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Radical Love and Probably Chelsea
		Ma Liuming, Visa to the USA
	References
Chapter 3: ‘My tongue doesn’t believe in boundaries’: A®tivism Across the US/Mexico Border
	Introduction
	Linking a®tivism with la conciencia de la mestiza
	‘My tongue doesn’t believe in boundaries’: A Linguistic Analysis of Border(s) (De)construction in Mexican American Slam Poetry
		Methodology
		Results and Discussion
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 4: Migrant Women’s Documentary Filmmaking: Shifting Positionalities and Precarious Creativity Across Borders in the Experience of Five Latin American Directors
	Introduction
	Crossing the Boundaries of the Film Text/Production Divide: The Interview Method
	Inside the Film: Reflexivity, Self-Discovery, and Shifting Subjectivities
	A Flexible and Mobile Production Mode: Contingency, Loose Authorship, and Alternative Values
	Conclusions
	References
Chapter 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
	Introduction
	Cowhide Intimacy: Global Colonialism and Chen’s Queering of Borders
	Threading and Ropewalking: Eroticizing/Inhabiting the Frontier
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 6: Crossing the Borders of Genders and Genres: Akwaeke Emezi’s Freshwater as a World-Making Narrative of Identity Reaffirmation
	Introduction
	Poietic Literature and Border-Crossing: An Evaluation
	Crisscrossing of Genders and Genres in Freshwater
	Border-Crossing and the Creation of a World-Making Narrative of Resistance
	Conclusions
	References
Chapter 7: Mobility, Belonging and the Utopia of a Borderless World: A Spatial and Identitarian Reading of Imbolo Mbue’s Behold the Dreamers
	The ‘spatial turn’ and the Recent Debordering/Rebordering Processes
	Living in the Margins: Border Policies and the Global Immigration Crisis
	Social Divides, Metropolitan Niches, and Intersectional Discrimination
	A Brief Reflection on Genres and Literary Categories
	References
Chapter 8: ‘Violent conclusion[s]’ versus ‘hopeful return[s]’: Zadie Smith’s The Embassy of Cambodia and the Performative Border-Crossing of the Narrative Voice
	Introduction
	Narrative Confrontations: A ‘Communal Voice’?
	Textual Performativity and Its Political Potential
	To Conclude: A Global/Local Critique
	References
Chapter 9: Morphing Forms: Metamorphosis in Twenty-First-Century British Women’s Experimental Short Fiction
	Introduction
	Form
	Metamorphosis
	Gender
	Conclusions
	References
Chapter 10: ‘This particular art [is] all about walls’: Nomadic Poetics of Identity in Ali Smith’s How to be both
	Nomadic Poetics of Identity
	By the Edge of a Wall: Moral Conundrums and Dilemmas
	On the Wall: Looking Beyond Borders
	On Nomadic Reading
	References
Chapter 11: Oblique Emotions and Border Intimacies in Dionne Brand’s Theory
	Introduction
	Footnotes and Other Borderscapes
	Oblique Emotions
	Border Intimacies
	Re/fusing Speculative Practices
	References
Chapter 12: An Unresolved Crossing: David Foster Wallace’s ‘Oblivion’
	Mapping Borders
	The Formal Border: From Monologue to Dialogue and Back
	Thematic Borders: From Within a Dream
	Stubborn Voices
	References
Chapter 13: Crossing Gender: Andy Warhol’s Candy Darling, America, and Angela Carter’s The Passion of New Eve
	Introduction
	S.C.U.M and Drag Queens
	Tristessa de St Ange: The World’s Most Beautiful Woman
	Candy Darling
	Crossing Gender and Double Drag
	References
Chapter 14: Genders, GYnealogies, GYne(co)alogies of Decolonial Geo-thalasso-corpographies: A Theoretical Reflection on Interconnectedness in Gender Configurations
	Introduction
	From Epistemology to Gnoseology and Feminist conocimiento
	Matrixial Borderspace, nepantla, and gYne(co)alogies
	For a Decolonial Thalasso-corpo-graphy or a Marine Epistemology of the South
	References
Chapter 15: Spivak and Sontag: Deconstructing Borders Through a Philosophical Appraisal of Literature
	Introduction
	Embodiment and Disembodiment
	Bodies, Literary Texts, and Books
	Conclusions
	References
Index