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Bringing together intersectional perspectives across disciplines such as the humanities, arts and social sciences, this book explores borders and crossings in relation to environmental damage and injustice in the context of the climate crisis.

Focusing on historical and contemporary borders and barriers, both physical, ideological, and ontological, this book examines their crossings, transformations, expansions, and reconfigurations in the post-COVID era of climate crisis. It explores the power of nationalist ideas that promote borders and the ways activists and artists work to challenge and break them down, looking at case studies such as the partition line in Cyprus and right wing extremism.

Focusing particularly on the way in which climate change literally alters the physical geography of borders, it looks at the representation of environmental crises, borders, barriers, and walls in literature, theatre, and other cultural and artistic expressions by writers as diverse as Franz Kafka, FastHorse, Rafeef Ziadah, and Claudia Rankine.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Alan Rice, UCLan UK, Ludmila Martanovschi, Associate Professor of American studies, Ovidius University, RO, Katerina Antoniou, UCLan Cyprus, Olga Michael, University of Cyprus

PART I: LITERARY AND POETIC FICTIONS ON THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE CLIMATE CRISIS
Chapter 1. Precarity and Planetarity: Anthropocene Literacy and the Task of Representation, Samir Dayal, Bentley University, USA
Chapter 2. The Global Climate Crisis and Borders, Boundaries and Barriers in Flight Behavior and The Carhullan Armyd, Pirjo Ahokas, University of Turku, Finland
Chapter 3. Walled cities, Ecocrisis, and Totalitarianism, Mark Frost, University of Portsmouth, UK
Chapter 4. Caribbean Sexuality Orientated by Water, Elina Valovirta, University of Turku, Finland
PART II: HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY BORDER=CROSSINGS
Chapter 5. Cyprus at Large, William Boelhower, Louisiana State University, USA
Chapter 6. Ekphrasis as Protest in the Poetry of Natasha Trethewey and Claudia Rankine, Malin Pereira, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Chapter 7. Border Crossing and Decolonial Being in Yuri Herrera's Signs Preceding the End of the World, Kolona Moutafidou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
PART III: BUILDING, PERFORMING AND CONTESTING FIGURATIVE AND LITERAL WALLS
Chapter 8. Performing Across Borders, Rafeef Ziadah's Political /Poetical Activism, Hend Nasser, UCLan UK
Chapter 9. Community Survivance in Indigenous Plays by FastHorse and Grasl, Cathy Waegner, University of Siegen, Germany
Chapter 10. Parabolic Walls in the Work of Franz Kafka and Followers, Page Laws, Norfolk State University, USA
Chapter 11. Protests and Resistance against Trump's Wall and Right-Wing Extremism, Elisabeth Boulot,Université Gustave Eiffel, France
Conclusion

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published 13 Nov 2025
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 256
ISBN 9781350499218
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations 6 bw illus
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Olga Michael

Olga Michael is Adjunct Lecturer in Anglophone Lit…

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Alan Rice

Alan Rice is Principal Lecturer in American Studie…

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Ludmila Martanovschi

Ludmila Martanovschi is Associate Professor in Ame…

Anthology Editor

Katerina Antoniou

Katerina Antoniou is Assistant Professor in Touris…

Anthology Editor

Jennifer Marie Bridgett Webster

Jenny Webster is a Research Associate at the Unive…

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