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Henry James across Borders

Year: 2020

Type: article

Abstract: This essay explores the opposition between the figures of the cosmopolitan and the patriot in a selection of James’s letters and travel writings. It focuses on the crossing of borders as revelatory of the mutual haunting of the “native” and the “alien.” But crossing the frontier also entails encountering the representatives of State violence. Through James’s mise en scène of his ambivalent fascination for the martial figure of the soldier, the frontier becomes a critical locus for the queering of identities and affiliations.

Source: Viatica

DOI: 10.52497/viatica1172

Author: Thomas Constantinesco

Institution: Laboratoire de Recherche sur les Cultures Anglophones

Language: English

Topic: American and British Literature Analysis

Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W3083313723

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