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Embracing the Horizon

  • Mieke Bal
Published/Copyright: February 27, 2008
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From the journal Volume 38 Issue 2

Abstract

Borders and their crossings play an immensely important part in our lives, in every aspect – as they do in literature. The main character in Tchicaya U Tam'si's novel Ces fruits si doux de l'arbre à pain (1987) is a judge, that is, a professional guard of boundaries of a specific kind: those between good and evil. As a judge, he stands for the need to uphold boundaries and for the survival of the community, indeed, of the species. But, as Judge Raymond Poaty soon finds out, it is impossible to maintain the clarity of the domain he serves. This confusion is an allegory for the state of the contemporary world.

Published Online: 2008-02-27
Published in Print: 2003-10-14

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https://doi.org/10.1515/arca.38.2.414

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Portrait of an Interdisciplinary Life. John Neubauer zum 70. Geburtstag
  2. Introduction
  3. Thought-Images: A Brief History of Time
  4. The Return of the Dinosaurs: About Scientific Imagination and its Affects
  5. Borders and Monuments: Goethe's Reconstruction of the World as Knowledge
  6. History, Theory and Abraham Gottlob Werner
  7. Mynheer Peeperkorn's Fever
  8. Introduction
  9. History, Empire, Opera
  10. Music Albums: A Tiny Gesamtkunstwerk?
  11. Listening to Kurt Schwitters' Ursonate. A Dadaistic-Romantic transposition d'arts?
  12. Introduction
  13. Reading Melling's Voyage pittoresque de Constantinople. Topography and Control
  14. Penumbra
  15. Bruno Freddi's Vissuto
  16. From Stony Facts to Paper Flowers
  17. Picturing It. The Issue of Visuality in the Classical Theory of Metaphor
  18. Introduction
  19. The Practical Use of Historiography: from Haffner to Herodotus
  20. The Gap between Hannah Arendt and Franz Kafka
  21. Literature and Art in History
  22. Cultural Memory, Cultural History and Cultural Canons in the Third Millennium
  23. Cross-border Histories
  24. Introduction
  25. The Intolerable
  26. History, Theory and the Middle Voice
  27. Sacred Memory or Relics: Should Holocaust Documents Be Altered?
  28. Blasting the Historical Continuum: Stories of my Grandmother
  29. Der Erlkönig in Sarajevo: Did the monument forecast the catastrophe?
  30. Introduction
  31. Hans Mayer – Ansichten eines komparatistischen Außenseiters
  32. Mastering Adolescence in the Age of Cultural Studies
  33. Bamboozled by Literature
  34. Arguments for a Cross-Cultural Literary History. Theoretical and Practical Implications
  35. Comparative Literary History, Theory and Practice: John Neubauer's Contribution
  36. “Rich Seeds We Must Sow … But If Only a Few Will Take”
  37. John Neubauer's Cultural Geographies
  38. The Marathon Man
  39. Embracing the Horizon
  40. Rezensionen
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