Borders and Border Crossings in the Contemporary British Short Story

Barbara Korte is a Professor of English Literature at the University of Freiburg, Germany. Laura Mª Lojo-Rodríguez is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Border(ing)s in Contemporary Short Stories of the British Isles.- Chapter 2: Glimpses of a Divided Kingdom in Zadie Smith’s Short Stories of the 2010s.- Part I: Grievable Lives and Refugees’ Tales.- Chapter 3: Refugee Fictions: Brexit and the Maintenance of Borders in the European Union.- Chapter 4: The Border Lives of the Unmourned: Olumide Popoola’s Refugee Stories.- Chapter 5: Global Travel and In/voluntary Border Crossings: Anne Enright’s “The Hotel”.- Chapter 6: A Permeable Fortress: European Tales of Global Conflict.- Part II: Ethnicity and Liminal Identities.- Chapter 7: Stranded in a Border Zone: Traumatic Liminality in Black British Short Stories.- Chapter 8: Border Experiences and Liminal Identities in Andrea Levy’s Short Stories.- Chapter 9: Sartorial Borders and Border Crossing in Contemporary Multi-Ethnic Short Stories.- Part III: Animal Encounters and Metamorphic Bodies.- Chapter 10: Indifferent Borders: Confined and Liminal Spaces in Sarah Hall’s “Bees”.- Chapter 11: Human Into Animal: Post-Anthropomorphic Transformations in Sarah Hall’s “Mrs Fox”.- Chapter 12: Weird Border Crossings in China Miéville’s “Looking for Jake”, “The Tain” and “Säcken”.- Chapter 13: Liminal Territory in the Fenland Stories of Jon McGregor and Daisy Johnson.- Part IV: The Short Story, Borders and Intermediality.- Chapter 14: Strangers at the Gates: Intermediality, Borders and the Short Story.- Chapter 15: Liminal Encounters between Literature and Music in Contemporary British.