Shifting Horizons and Crossing Borders: Thinking with Stephanos Stephanides (Cross/Cultures)

The book captures key moments in the critical and creative dialogue of literary scholars, poets and artists with poet, author, documentary film-maker and literary scholar Stephanos Stephanides. Employing a polyphonic and cross-disciplinary perspective, the twenty-three essays and creative pieces flow together in cycles of continuities and discontinuities, emulating Stephanides’s fluid and transgressive universe. Drawing on the broad topic of borders and crossings, Shifting Horizons and Crossing Borders offers critical material on themes such as space and place, dislocation and migration, journeys and bridges, movement and fluidity, the aesthetics and the politics of the sea, time, nostalgia and (trans)cultural memory, identity and poetics, translation and translatability, home and homecoming. An invaluable reference for anyone interested in the crosscurrents between the poetic, the cultural and the political.

Angelos Evangelou (PhD, 2013, University of Kent) is Assistant Professor in English Literature and Literary Theory at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. His recent publications include Philosophizing Madness from Nietzsche to Derrida (2017) and various articles on borders, border crossing and mental illness in Anglophone literature.