Crossing Borders

Essays on Literature, Culture, and Society in Honor of Amritjit Singh

Tapan Basu, Tasneem Shahnaaz (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

376 Seiten

2017
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (Verlag)
978-1-61147-899-0 (ISBN)

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Crossing Borders engages with the emergent field of borders studies, particularly in relation to North America, South Asia, and the transnational spaces they continue to embrace. While multicultural theory tends to emphasize specific and individual cultures, border studies examines the intersection of cultures and the resulting effects.

Crossing Borders is a gathering of twenty original, interdisciplinary essays on the paradigm of borders in African American literature, multi-ethnic U.S. studies, and South Asian studies. These essays by established and mid-career scholars from around the globe employ a variety of approaches to the idea of “border crossings” and represent important contributions to the discourses on modernity, diasporic mobility, populism, migration, exile, sub-nation, trans-nation, as well as the formation of nationalities, communities, and identities. Borders, in these contexts, signify social and national inequities and hierarchies and also the ways to challenge and transgress entrenched barriers sanctioned by habit, custom, and law. The volume also honors and celebrates the life and work of Amritjit Singh as a teacher, mentor, author, scholar, and editor over half a century.

Tapan Basu is associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Delhi. Tasneem Shahnaaz is associate professor in the Department of English, Sri Aurobindo College, University of Delhi.

Preface
Introduction
Tapan Basu and Tasneem Shahnaaz

Part I: Multiculturalism and Its Discontents
1 Out of Line: Shifting Border Paradigms in Cooper, Morrison, and Yamashita
Silvia Schultermandl
2 Wave or Particle?: Crossing Borders in Ruth Ozeki’s novel A Tale for the Time Being (2013)
Peter Schmidt
3 Translating across the Borders: Sui Sin Far and Other Interethnic/Interstitial Asian American Subjects
Martha J. Cutter
4 Dancing with Italians: Chicago’s Italians in Fact, and in the Fiction of Willard Motley
Fred Gardaphe

Part II: Nation and Sub-Nation
5 Creating Kashmir: Gender, Politics, and Violence in Meena Arora Nayak’s Endless Rain
Robin E. Field
6 Drawing the Durand Line: Pakistani Afghans, Borders, and Transnational Insecurity
Zubeda Jalalzai
7 Teaching Giovanni’s Room in the Shadow of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Denaturalizing Privilege
Catherine Rottenberg

Part III: Diaspora and Trans-Nation
8 Diasporic Subjectivity: Dhan Gopal Mukerji’s Caste and Outcast and Sadhu Singh Dhami’s Maluka
Nalini Iyer
9 A Partition without Borders: Diasporic Readings of Clear Light of Day and Train to Pakistan
Rahul K. Gairola
10 Caste, Race, and Intellectual History: Notes on a Singular Modernity
Auritro Majumder

Part IV: Gendered Identities
11 Jessie Fauset and the Historiography of the Harlem Renaissance
Cheryl A. Wall
12 Space and the Shape of a Life: Placing Nella Larsen
Thadious M. Davis
13 The Sexual Commodities, Racial Economies, and Critical Oversights of Felice Swados’s House of Fury
Ayesha K. Hardison

Part V: Art: Between the Popular and the Populist
14 Langston Hughes and the Challenges of Populist Art
Arnold Rampersad
15 Orality, History, and Narration: The Aesthetics of Listening
Jasbir Jain
16 Romare Bearden’s Li’l Dan the Drummer Boy: Coloring a Story of the Civil War
Robert B. Stepto

Part VI: Journeys across Art and Life
17 “Heritage” in America: A Literary Stroll
Werner Sollors
18 What Is Ralph Ellison All About?: A Retrospective View
Charles Johnson
19 Writing across Borders: Race and Gender in Elleke Boehmer’s Fiction
Lynda Ng
20 A Native Son Abroad: A Conversation with Amritjit Singh
Nibir K. Ghosh

Epilogue: Amritjit Singh: Reflections and Stories
Rajiva Verma, Ved Prakash, Houston A. Baker, Roshni
Rustomji-Kerns, K. D. Verma, David Ray, Judy Ray, Meena
Alexander, J. N. Sharma, Sachidananda Mohanty, Pradyumna
S. Chauhan, Malashri Lal, Sudhi Rajiv, Tapan Basu, Daniel M.
Scott, Joseph A. Conforti, Richard Olmstead, Barbara A.
Silliman, Zubeda Jalalzai, Gert Buelens, Robert Elliot Fox,
Bruce Dick, C. Lok Chua, Wendy Barker, Chitra Banerjee
Divakaruni, John C. Hawley, Shauna Singh Baldwin, Samina
Najmi, Rajini Srikanth, Nita N. Kumar, Altaf Ullah Khan,
Marsha L. Dutton, Vladimir Marchenkov, Richard A. Courage,
Heba Sharobeem and Ira Dworkin

Index
About the Editors and Contributors

Erscheinungsdatum	11.05.2017
Co-Autor	Elleke Boehmer, Martha J. Cutter, Thadious M. Davis
Verlagsort	Cranbury
Sprache	englisch
Maße	158 x 239 mm
Gewicht	730 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-61147-899-5 / 1611478995
ISBN-13	978-1-61147-899-0 / 9781611478990
Zustand	Neuware