Writing Borders and Other Barriers in the Era of Climate Crisis

Olga Michael is Adjunct Lecturer in Anglophone Literature at the University of CyprusAlan Rice is Professor in English and American Studies at the University of Central Lancashire, UK Ludmila Martanovschi is Associate Professor in American Studies at Ovidius University, Romania Katerina Antoniou is Assistant Professor in Tourism and International Relations at UCLan CyprusJenny Webster is a Research Associate at the University of Central Lancashire, UK.

This is not only a timely book but a valuable resource. It bridges several disciplines that have been trying to think through the changing geographical, political, existential, philosophical, and aesthetic questions surrounding borders at a time of climate emergency. That the book does so by paying attention to emergent literary genres, such as climate fiction, and established paradigms of border studies is noteworthy.

• Introduction: Writing and Reading Borders and Other Barriers in the Era of Climate Crisis: An Introduction Olga Michael (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)Part I: Environmental and Other Crises: (Un)Doing the Human/Nature Divide1. Precarity and Planetarity: Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide: A Plea for Anthropocene Literacy, Samir Dayal (Bentley University, Massachusetts, USA) 2. ‘The Writing on the Wall’: The Global Climate Crisis and Borders, Boundaries and Barriers in Flight Behavior and The Carhullan Army. Pirjo Ahokas (University of Turku, Finland) 3. Walled cities, ecocrisis, and totalitarianism: Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We (1924) and J.J. Connington’s Nordenholt’s Million (1923). Mark Frost (University of Portsmouth, UK)4. Mami Wata and the Tide Within: Caribbean Sexuality Orientated by Water. Elina Valovirta (University of Turku, Finland) Part II: Empires Past and Present: Colonialism and Coloniality through the Centuries5. Cyprus at Large: ‘We Are Here Because You Were There’. William Boelhower (Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Italy) 6. ‘Disobedient’ Ekphrasis in the Poetry of Natasha Trethewey and Claudia Rankine. Malin Pereira (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA) 7. Uncanny Spectres: Border Crossing and Decolonial Being in Yuri Herrera’s Signs Preceding the End of the World. Lona Moutafidou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) Part III: Building, Performing and Contesting Figurative and Literal Walls 8. Performing Across Borders: Rafeef Ziadah’s Political-Poetical Activism. Hend Nasser (University of Central Lancashire, UK) 9. Walls of water and snow in Vanishing Point and Lying with Badgers: Community survivance in Indigenous plays by FastHorse and Grasl. Cathy C. Waegner (Independent Scholar) 10. Parabolic Walls in Selected Works of Franz Kafka, J. M. Coetzee, and Nadine Gordimer. Page Laws (Norfolk State University in Virginia, USA)