Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The article employs the concept of bordertexture, a term derived from the field of cultural border studies, to interpret Olivia Wenzel's novel 1000 coils of fear (2020).The primary focus is on the nexus between insecurity and relationality.A comprehensive analysis of diverse inner-diegetic border experiences is conducted, alongside the delineation of various dimensions of insecurity at the textual level.A secondary focus is placed on the aspect of co-presence and the search for interactions.The article's underlying thesis asserts that literary devices such as temporal and spatial disorientation, the interweaving of different times and places, dialogicity, and the staging of effects of border experiences, including fear and uncertainty, can be comprehended as a poetics of relationality.
Authors: Cécile Chamayou-Kuhn, Lena Wetenkamp
Institutions: Université de Lorraine, KU Leuven
Language: German
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W7119150239
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