FUMIN comes from the Vallée d'Aoste, the peculiar Alpine borderland that is technically Italian, though the language is French.
He asserted that the hilly western borderland that appears as a boundary to the external eye is actually a network of hill plateaus where the local people have always moved freely.
Tens of thousands of his troops are also at a tense standoff with Ethiopia over a rocky strip of borderland that already caused a war between the two nations in the late 1990s.
"Voroshilovgrad," though set in 2009, has become the novel of our present moment, an intimate sojourn in a long-neglected Soviet borderland that is now threatening to bring about the fall of Europe.
They're a people set apart, a distinct ethnic group who've always lived in a corner of the Turkey-Iraq borderland that folk memory across the wider region recalls as the location of the Garden of Eden.
7. Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera It's in this same modern borderland that Makina, the pawn-like protagonist of Herrera's short and mystical novel finds herself.
True denizens of the borderland, they remind us that the future is uncertain and the fate of the soul is unknown.
National unity will also be a feature, something aimed at symbolically assuring everyone that the borderland uprisings since 2008 are but the work of a few malcontents in cahoots with international splittist schemers.
The mixed messages raised the question of whether Hamas might be trying to provoke the Israelis to break the cease-fire, or perhaps to establish new facts on the ground — farmers tilling the borderland, fishermen fishing farther out — that would increase its leverage in negotiations.
His iffy logic recalls a rhetorical salvo from "Rep 2 Tha Fullest," another lesser track here: "I spit that real reality rap/I do it for the hood, where your analogy at?" Kneebody Cohesion is the truest constant in the music of Kneebody, a band that inhabits the borderland abutted by post-bop, indie-rock and hip-hop, without seeming to give much thought to the borders.
