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Interiors

Interiority/Exteriority in Literary and Cultural Discourse

Edited By: Katarzyna Nowak, Sonia Front

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These essays explore the borderland between interiors and exteriors. Where do we draw dividing lines? Can we afford not to distinguish between the inside and outside, between “us” and “them”? This volume presents a plethora of answers.

The essays gathered in the present collection provide textual explorations of the theoretical borderland between interiors and exteriors, undertaken from a variety of perspectives and…

The essays gathered in the present collection provide textual explorations of the theoretical borderland between interiors and exteriors, undertaken from a variety of perspectives and representing varying approaches and understandings of these terms. In the realm of theory, the distinction between what we choose to include and what we exclude remains a political choice, often fraught with dilemmas that cannot be resolved. How to discern between interiors and exteriors? Where do we draw dividing lines? Do we want to draw them anymore? Or, alternately, can we afford not to divide and discern between the inside and outside, between here and there, between “us” and “them”? If the binary divisions, so much discredited, no longer hold, if we must include multiplicity and plurality of readings, is any distinction between these dimensions possible? Essays collected in the present volume attempt to present a wide plethora of answers to these questions.

Sonia Front received her PhD in 2007 from the University of Silesia, Poland. She has published on contemporary cinema and English literature. She teaches English Literature and Culture. Her research interests include postmodernism in literature, and the employment of quantum physics in literature and film. In 2009 she published Transgressing Boundaries in Jeanette Winterson’s Fiction.

Katarzyna Nowak is Assistant Professor at the Department of English, University of Wroclaw, Poland, where she teaches American Literature and Culture. Her recent publications include Melancholic Travelers: Autonomy, Hybridity and the Maternal and papers on postcolonial literature and theory, gender studies and opera studies.