Kapka Kassabova and Ben Judah: Writing Borders and Borderscapes in Contemporary Europe

This article addresses the role of border and borderscapes in two contemporary texts by writers based Britain, Kapka Kassabova’s Border: A Journey to Edge Europe [Kassabova, Kapka. 2017. Europe. London: Granta] Ben Judah’s Is Life Death World City [Judah, Ben. 2016. is City. Picador]. Reading these as narratives context discourses on Brexit, shows how challenge general bordering tendency represent Europeans Britain’s Others, marked difference ethnic, cultural, geopolitical borders. Examining works borderscape concept, texts’ border-crossings such binary thinking offer ways locate alternatives simplistic versions national identity. The a transforming discourse borders that underlines their porosity points emergence new identities result border-crossings. examined (Bulgaria’s southern London) reveal diverse belongings becomings historical contexts generate identities.