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Borderline Citizen

- Dispatches from the Outskirts of Nationhood
Af: Robin Hemley Engelsk Paperback

Borderline Citizen

- Dispatches from the Outskirts of Nationhood
Af: Robin Hemley Engelsk Paperback
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In Borderline Citizen Robin Hemley wrestles with what it means to be a citizen of the world, taking readers on a singular journey through the hinterlands of national identity. As a polygamist of place, Hemley celebrates Guy Fawkes Day in the contested Falkland Islands; Canada Day and the Fourth of July in the tiny U.S. exclave of Point Roberts, Washington; Russian Federation Day in the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad; Handover Day among protesters in Hong Kong; and India Day along the most complicated border in the world.

Forgoing the exotic descriptions of faraway lands common in traditional travel writing, Borderline Citizen upends the genre with darkly humorous and deeply compassionate glimpses into the lives of exiles, nationalists, refugees, and others. Hemley’s superbly rendered narratives detail these individuals, including a Chinese billionaire who could live anywhere but has chosen to situate his ornate mansion in the middle of his impoverished ancestral village, a black nationalist wanted on thirty-two outstanding FBI warrants exiled in Cuba, and an Afghan refugee whose intentionally altered birth date makes him more easy to deport despite his harrowing past.

Part travelogue, part memoir, part reportage, Borderline Citizen redefines notions of nationhood through an exploration of the arbitrariness of boundaries and what it means to belong.
 
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In Borderline Citizen Robin Hemley wrestles with what it means to be a citizen of the world, taking readers on a singular journey through the hinterlands of national identity. As a polygamist of place, Hemley celebrates Guy Fawkes Day in the contested Falkland Islands; Canada Day and the Fourth of July in the tiny U.S. exclave of Point Roberts, Washington; Russian Federation Day in the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad; Handover Day among protesters in Hong Kong; and India Day along the most complicated border in the world.

Forgoing the exotic descriptions of faraway lands common in traditional travel writing, Borderline Citizen upends the genre with darkly humorous and deeply compassionate glimpses into the lives of exiles, nationalists, refugees, and others. Hemley’s superbly rendered narratives detail these individuals, including a Chinese billionaire who could live anywhere but has chosen to situate his ornate mansion in the middle of his impoverished ancestral village, a black nationalist wanted on thirty-two outstanding FBI warrants exiled in Cuba, and an Afghan refugee whose intentionally altered birth date makes him more easy to deport despite his harrowing past.

Part travelogue, part memoir, part reportage, Borderline Citizen redefines notions of nationhood through an exploration of the arbitrariness of boundaries and what it means to belong.
 
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 216
ISBN-13: 9781496220417
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1496220412
Kategori: Erindringer
Udg. Dato: 1 mar 2020
Længde: 0mm
Bredde: 140mm
Højde: 216mm
Forlag: University of Nebraska Press
Oplagsdato: 1 mar 2020
Forfatter(e): Robin Hemley
Forfatter(e) Robin Hemley


Kategori Erindringer


ISBN-13 9781496220417


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 216


Udgave


Længde 0mm


Bredde 140mm


Højde 216mm


Udg. Dato 1 mar 2020


Oplagsdato 1 mar 2020


Forlag University of Nebraska Press

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