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The following pages offer critical essays that explore the theoretical possibilities and implications of Interstitial Arts.
Ellen Kushner
The Interstitial Arts Foundation: An Introduction (2005)
Whose idea was this, anyway? In a brief overview of the organization and its goals, Ellen Kushner narrates the founding of the IAF, its essential outlook, vision and hopes for the future.
Gregory Frost
Coloring Between the Lines (2004)
In this essay, based on a talk given to the Philadelphia Science
Fiction Society, Gregory Frost describes recent literary movements, such as slipstream, metafiction, and magic realism, that have brought into question the boundaries between genres, and makes a case for the
importance of interstitial writing.
Heinz Insu Fenkl
Towards a Theory of the Interstitial [Version 1.0]: The Interstitial DMZ (2003)
Heinz Insu Fenkl offers a theory of interstitiality based in part on the anthropological and postcolonial insights of Victor Turner and Homi Bhabha, illustrated by interstitial works such as Barry Hughart's Bridge of Birds, Kirsty Gunn's The Keepsake, and his own Memories of My Ghost Brother.
Eve Sweetser
Categories, Labels and Genres, Oh My … (2003)
Eve Sweetser takes a close look at our impulse to categorize, and the ways in which categories are created and maintained, based on the findings of Cognitive Science.
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