Tag: borders

Narratives that originate at border crossings cannot be bound by
national borders, languages, and literary and critical traditions. Born of crisis and change, suffering alternately from amnesia and too much
remembering, and precariously positioned at the interstices of different spaces, histories, and languages, they seek to name and configure cultural and literary production in their own terms and to enter novel forms of inter /transcultural dialogue

Azade Seyhan, Writing Outside the Nation (Princeton NJ & Oxford: Princeton UP, 2001).

Out of terror at its incompleteness and ravenous need, anorexia constructs a physical sign calculated to manifest disdain for need, for hunger, designed to appear entirely free of all forms of dependency, to appear complete, self-contained

Louise Gluck, from Proofs & Theories, 11

Following the sacrifice of the scapegoat, Athens “reconstitutes its unity, closes around the security of its inner courts, gives back to itself the word that links it with itself within the confines of the agora, by violently excluding from its territory the representative of an external threat or aggression. That representative represents the otherness of the evil that comes to affect or infect the inside by unpredictably breaking into it. Yet the representative of the outside is nonetheless constituted, regularly granted its place by the community, chosen, kept, fed, etc., in the very heart of the inside.”

–Derrida, Dissemination, 133.