ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the potential of Euro/African borderscapes as artistic and theatrical spaces of transformation and becoming. It traces an imaginary road connecting Senegal with Italy. Postcolonial Theory and Cultural Studies provide both a theoretical frame and a methodological approach supporting the relevance of operationalising borders through borderscapes on stage. Borderscapes are useful epistemological and methodological categories not only of border crossing, de-bordering, re-bordering and contamination but, most importantly, of transformation. In colonial discourse and practices of power, material and immaterial borders are essential elements for constructing visions of the self and the other as opposing concepts and entities. National colonial narrative contrasts the imperial centre with its peripheries, creating economic imbalances, separating North and South, East and West, producing schizophrenic black/white identities as theorised by Franz Fanon inventing, marginalising and rejecting difference by erecting visible and invisible walls.
