Crossing Borders (eBook)

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

Tapan Basu, Tasneem Shahnaaz (Herausgeber)

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2017
376 Seiten
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (Verlag)
978-1-61147-900-3 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

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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 "e;border crossings"e; 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.

Autor

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.

Inhalt

PrefaceIntroductionTapan Basu and Tasneem Shahnaaz Part I: Multiculturalism and Its Discontents1 Out of Line: Shifting Border Paradigms in Cooper, Morrison, and YamashitaSilvia Schultermandl2 Wave or Particle?: Crossing Borders in Ruth Ozeki’s novel A Tale for the Time Being (2013)Peter Schmidt3 Translating across the Borders: Sui Sin Far and Other Interethnic/Interstitial Asian American SubjectsMartha J. Cutter4 Dancing with Italians: Chicago’s Italians in Fact, and in the Fiction of Willard MotleyFred Gardaphe Part II: Nation and Sub-Nation5 Creating Kashmir: Gender, Politics, and Violence in Meena Arora Nayak’s Endless RainRobin E. Field6 Drawing the Durand Line: Pakistani Afghans, Borders, and Transnational InsecurityZubeda Jalalzai7 Teaching Giovanni’s Room in the Shadow of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Denaturalizing PrivilegeCatherine Rottenberg Part III: Diaspora and Trans-Nation8 Diasporic Subjectivity: Dhan Gopal Mukerji’s Caste and Outcast and Sadhu Singh Dhami’s MalukaNalini Iyer9 A Partition without Borders: Diasporic Readings of Clear Light of Day and Train to PakistanRahul K. Gairola10 Caste, Race, and Intellectual History: Notes on a Singular ModernityAuritro Majumder Part IV: Gendered Identities11 Jessie Fauset and the Historiography of the Harlem RenaissanceCheryl A. Wall12 Space and the Shape of a Life: Placing Nella LarsenThadious M. Davis13 The Sexual Commodities, Racial Economies, and Critical Oversights of Felice Swados’s House of FuryAyesha K. Hardison Part V: Art: Between the Popular and the Populist14 Langston Hughes and the Challenges of Populist ArtArnold Rampersad15 Orality, History, and Narration: The Aesthetics of ListeningJasbir Jain16 Romare Bearden’s Li’l Dan the Drummer Boy: Coloring a Story of the Civil WarRobert B. Stepto Part VI: Journeys across Art and Life17 “Heritage” in America: A Literary StrollWerner Sollors18 What Is Ralph Ellison All About?: A Retrospective ViewCharles Johnson19 Writing across Borders: Race and Gender in Elleke Boehmer’s FictionLynda Ng20 A Native Son Abroad: A Conversation with Amritjit SinghNibir K. Ghosh Epilogue: Amritjit Singh: Reflections and StoriesRajiva Verma, Ved Prakash, Houston A. Baker, RoshniRustomji-Kerns, K. D. Verma, David Ray, Judy Ray, MeenaAlexander, J. N. Sharma, Sachidananda Mohanty, PradyumnaS. 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 BanerjeeDivakaruni, John C. Hawley, Shauna Singh Baldwin, SaminaNajmi, Rajini Srikanth, Nita N. Kumar, Altaf Ullah Khan,Marsha L. Dutton, Vladimir Marchenkov, Richard A. Courage,Heba Sharobeem and Ira Dworkin IndexAbout the Editors and Contributors

Produkt-Details

• Co-Autor: Elleke Boehmer, Jasbir Jain, Zubeda Jalalzai, Charles Johnson, Auritro Majumder, Lynda Ng, Arnold Rampersad, Catherine Rottenberg, Peter Schmidt, Silvia Schultermandl, Amritjit Singh, Martha J. Cutter, Werner Sollors, Robert B. Stepto, Cheryl A. Wall, Thadious M. Davis, Robin E. Field, Rahul K. Gairola, Fred Gardaphe, Nibir K. Ghosh, Ayesha Hardison, Nalini Iyer
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: African American Studies • Cultural Studies • Ethnic American Studies • Migration Studies
• ISBN-10: 1-61147-900-2 / 1611479002
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61147-900-3 / 9781611479003