Border texts are places where our differences find expression. Texts that deal thematically with differences are often hybrid genres—that is, essays that combine politics with autobiography or autobiography with cultural criticism, for example. Visual documents that seem to tell stories or narratives are texts where the borders between image and writing come together.  Cyberspace is also a vast and new field of borders and new kinds of text.

In Beyond Borders:  See Roger Williams "A Key Into the Language," Wong Sam and Assistants "An English Chinese Phrasebook," Art Spiegelman's MAUS, Patricia Rodriguez's "La Fruta del Diablo," and John Gast's "Progress."

In Beyond Borders Online:  See Web Research Activities, "Texts and Contexts: How Many Sides Does a Border Have?" and "The Shape of Stories: Digital Storytelling, Hypertext Poetry, and the New Multimedia Expressions." 

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