Border Politics in Novels by European Women in Translation

"This book examines the writing of award-winning European novelists to explore novelistic representations of power, war, sacrifice, heroism, national history and identity, all of which offers a cultural and imaginative response to border conflicts. Often drawing upon the writers' own personal experience of threatening divisions, it examines works by Virginia Woolf, Jenny Erpenbeck, Olga Tokarczuk, Herta Mèuller, Anna Burns, Chika Unigwe, Maylis de Kerangal, Magda Szabâo, Elena Ferranti, Alki Zei, Elif Shafak, and Oksana Zabuzhko"--