Arts of the Border - by Debarati Sanyal (Hardcover)

About the Book

Examining Europe's borders and their artistic representations as an archive both of state violence and of refusal, fugitivity, and imagination.

Book Synopsis

Examining Europe's borders and their artistic representations as an archive both of state violence and of refusal, fugitivity, and imagination.

Review Quotes

In this deeply moving and ever more urgent exploration of the arts of the border, written with brilliant clarity and heart, Debarati Sanyal evokes the violent realities of migration alongside the creative defiance of those who refuse to be erased.---Marianne Hirsch, author of The Generation of Postmemory: Literature and Visual Culture After the Holocaust

While taking seriously the violence of borders, Sanyal offers a refreshing, inspiring, and nuanced account of the creative, imaginative and rebellious acts at and around the E.U. border regime. She traces the often fugitive arts of the border--how people cross, and how these crossings are both represented and prefigured by experimental art. A beautiful, compelling book about the struggle for alternative worlds, more just worlds.---Miriam Ticktin, author of Against Innocence: Undoing and Remaking the World

About the Author

Debarati Sanyal is Professor of French and Zaffaroni Family Chair of Undergraduate Education (2024-29) at the University of California, Berkeley, where she directs the Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry. She is the author of Memory and Complicity: Migrations of Holocaust Remembrance (2015) translated in French as Mémoire et complicité Au prisme de la Shoah (2019) and The Violence of Modernity: Baudelaire, Irony and the Politics of Form (2006).