Interiors: Interiority/Exteriority in Literary and Cultural Discourse

by Katarzyna Nowak (Editor), Katarzyna Nowak

The essays gathered in the present collection provide textual explorations of the theoretical borderland between the 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.

275 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 2010