Borderscapes

“Crossing/Borders” was the theme of the SAES (Société des Anglicistes de l’Enseignement Supérieur) annual conference, held in Nancy from 30 May to 1 June 2024. Corinne Bigot and Suhasini Vincent, who chaired the SEPC workshop “Postcolonial Literatures and Arts,” guest edited this issue. The eight articles explore the shifting scapes of borders and crossings across postcolonial literatures, tracing their configurations from static demarcations to dynamic borderscapes. The contributors highlight how writers transform spaces of exclusion into sites of resistance and creative renewal. Each essay portrays a different facet of the border—as invisible, blurred, intangible, porous, shifting, and fluid. Borders emerge neither as fixed lines nor rigid boundaries but as sites of encounter where identities are contested, histories are rewritten, and new forms of belonging are imagined. This issue brings together essays exploring how postcolonial literatures depict borders and crossings as dynamic spaces of negotiation, resistance, and imaginative creative expression.

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