tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post7545895859619132211..comments2024-03-26T23:41:10.319+00:00Comments on Authors Electric: Walled Cities and Danger - by Emma BarnesKatherine Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17196712319655603442noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-38996263702321363872011-08-05T12:26:23.518+01:002011-08-05T12:26:23.518+01:00Yes - as tourists we stroll around the remaining w...Yes - as tourists we stroll around the remaining walled cities, admiring the view. But for the inhabitants those walls had a completely different meaning.Emma Barneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02718171070716804800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-20856882803868442522011-08-05T11:54:58.354+01:002011-08-05T11:54:58.354+01:00Walls are such a powerful metaphor. I had a friend...Walls are such a powerful metaphor. I had a friend at college whose doctoral work was on the use of the word barbarian. It's so interesting the ways we have of distancing ourselves from those we perceive as outsiders.<br /><br />I held a literary exhibition last year, "Into the Desert" on a similar theme - that of the desert as a place of strangeness and fear, and - as someone who's been an outsider pretty much everywhere they've ever lived and been - it was fascinating to look at it from the other side - looking from the desert, over the walls from outside, as a barbarian. It's one of those timeless themesDan Hollowayhttp://danholloway.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com