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This volume focuses on “walls” in cultural as much as material terms. It uncovers far-reaching notions of wall and border as landmarks of civilisation, but also as (necessary) boundaries for creativity. Barriers can separate human and non-human identities, but they can also segregate the “rejects” of society. The essays explore the ethical implications of walls in a range of historical periods and locations. The topics include British and American culture, classical music in Canada, fascist Italy, interwar France, German military history of World War II, and colonial North America in the seventeenth century. With contributons by Pina Palma, Iman Nick, David Fontanals, Christian Moretti, Jafar Baba, Vincenzo Lisciani Petrini and Trang Dang.

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James Cannon, Ph.D., Monash University, is Lecturer and Coordinator of French Studies at La Trobe University. He has published the monograph The Paris “Zone”: A Cultural History, 1840-1944 (2015). His research focuses on the history of marginal spaces in and around Paris. Luigi Gussago, Ph.D., La Trobe University, is Lecturer in French at that university. He has published the monograph Picaresque Fiction Today: The Trickster in Contemporary Anglophone and Italian Literature (2016) and co-edited (with Prof. Pina Palma) A Century of Italian War Narratives: Voices from the Sidelines (2023). His research interests include comparative literature, semiotics and ecocriticism.

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