Modern European Borders in Fiction

The Divided Continent

Dr Andrew Hammond (University of Sussex, UK)

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Bloomsbury Academic
16 October 2025

There are few features of the contemporary world more significant than national and regional borders. In modern Europe, the practices of human division have defined the continent from the early years of the Cold War to the present barriers of Fortress Europe, whose exposure of irregular migrants to trafficking, discrimination and deportation is rarely absent from the daily news. Modern European Borders in Fiction offers a comprehensive study of literary responses to the topic.

Through reference to over 600 novels and short stories, Andrew Hammond analyses the wide-ranging engagement of post-1945 novelists with the ideologies, processes and effects of territorialisation, as well as the related issues of military conflict, migration, populism, nationalism and regionalism. Among the topics under study are the ideological divisions of the Cold War, the closed societies of totalitarian communism, the labour migrations of the 1950s and 1960s, the tightening of border controls from the 1970s, the twenty-first-century war on migration, the official restrictions on borderland communities, the conflicts in Bosnia, Georgia and Ukraine and the patterns of social segregation that have marked the continent from the Second World War to the present.

Drawing on theoretical work in the social sciences and the humanities, this is a ground-breaking contribution to European literary studies, establishing the importance of continental border writing and opening up fresh avenues for decolonised teaching and research.

By: Dr Andrew Hammond (University of Sussex UK)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 236mm, Width: 158mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 1.080kg
ISBN: 9781350517660
ISBN 10: 1350517666
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 16 October 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction 1. Civilisational Borders 2. Physical Borders 3. Social Borders Bibliography Index

Dr Andrew Hammond is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature and the author of ten books on British, European and Global literatures.

Reviews for Modern European Borders in Fiction: The Divided Continent

Impressive in its erudition yet remarkably accessible, this book investigates transnational border writing in Europe, mapping the shifting discourse and attitudes toward immigration in the post-World War II era. Through an analysis of a large corpus of literary works, Hammond examines how literature both reflects and shapes evolving perceptions of the Other within fluctuating political and economic landscapes. By challenging the nation-based framework of literary studies, Hammond's work presents a compelling model for reimagining a discipline in crisis. -- Carla Calargé, Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Florida Atlantic University, USA