Robin Hemley Borderline Citizen: Dispatches from the Outskirts of Nationhood 9781496220417

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Автор: Robin Hemley
Название: Borderline Citizen: Dispatches from the Outskirts of Nationhood
ISBN: 9781496220417
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Биографии: общее жизнеописание

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ISBN-10: 1496220412
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 216
Вес: 0.27 кг.
Дата издания: 01.03.2020
Серия: American lives
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 3 photographs, 3 maps
Размер: 216 x 140 x 12
Ключевые слова: Travel writing,Memoirs, TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues,BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
Подзаголовок: Dispatches from the outskirts of nationhood
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: In Borderline Citizen Robin Hemley wrestles with what it means to be a citizen of the world, taking readers on a singular journey through the hinterlands of national identity. As a polygamist of place, Hemley celebrates Guy Fawkes Day in the contested Falkland Islands; Canada Day and the Fourth of July in the tiny U.S. exclave of Point Roberts, Washington; Russian Federation Day in the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad; Handover Day among protesters in Hong Kong; and India Day along the most complicated border in the world.

Forgoing the exotic descriptions of faraway lands common in traditional travel writing, Borderline Citizen upends the genre with darkly humorous and deeply compassionate glimpses into the lives of exiles, nationalists, refugees, and others. Hemley’s superbly rendered narratives detail these individuals, including a Chinese billionaire who could live anywhere but has chosen to situate his ornate mansion in the middle of his impoverished ancestral village, a black nationalist wanted on thirty-two outstanding FBI warrants exiled in Cuba, and an Afghan refugee whose intentionally altered birth date makes him more easy to deport despite his harrowing past.

Part travelogue, part memoir, part reportage, Borderline Citizen redefines notions of nationhood through an exploration of the arbitrariness of boundaries and what it means to belong.

Дополнительное описание: List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Prologue: The Traveler in the Twenty-First Century
Walled Citizens
No One Will See Me Again Forever
The Great Land Swap
Don’t Be Too Difficult
Close Calls with a Potenti

Borderline Citizen: Dispatches from the Outskirts of Nationhood, Robin Hemley