Dr Andrew Hammond is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature and the author of ten books on British, European and Global literatures.

• Introduction1. Civilisational Borders2. Physical Borders3. Social BordersBibliographyIndex

The extensive coverage of this highly readable investigation makes deeper tendencies in post-war and contemporary border writing visible for the first time. Providing historical, social, political and legal contexts in a language that researchers in other disciplines will feel at home in, it makes a forceful argument for the centrality of borders as a theme that connects post-communist and postcolonial literature about Europe.

Dr Andrew Hammond is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature and the author of ten books on British, European and Global literatures.

• Introduction1. Civilisational Borders2. Physical Borders3. Social BordersBibliographyIndex

The extensive coverage of this highly readable investigation makes deeper tendencies in post-war and contemporary border writing visible for the first time. Providing historical, social, political and legal contexts in a language that researchers in other disciplines will feel at home in, it makes a forceful argument for the centrality of borders as a theme that connects post-communist and postcolonial literature about Europe.

Dr Andrew Hammond is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature and the author of ten books on British, European and Global literatures.

• Introduction1. Civilisational Borders2. Physical Borders3. Social BordersBibliographyIndex

The extensive coverage of this highly readable investigation makes deeper tendencies in post-war and contemporary border writing visible for the first time. Providing historical, social, political and legal contexts in a language that researchers in other disciplines will feel at home in, it makes a forceful argument for the centrality of borders as a theme that connects post-communist and postcolonial literature about Europe.