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

Tapan Basu; Tasneem Shahnaaz

doi:10.5771/9781611479003

Summary

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.

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Edition: 1/2017
Copyright year: 2017
ISBN-Print: 978-1-61147-899-0
ISBN-Online: 978-1-61147-900-3
Publisher: University Press Copublishing, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 353
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Preface No access
3. Introduction No access
1. 1 Out of Line No access
2. 2 Wave or Particle? No access
3. 3 Translating across the Borders No access
4. 4 Dancing with Italians No access
1. 5 Creating Kashmir No access
2. 6 Drawing the Durand Line No access
3. 7 Teaching Giovanni’s Room in the Shadow of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict No access
1. 8 Diasporic Subjectivity No access
2. 9 A Partition without Borders No access
3. 10 Caste, Race, and Intellectual History No access
1. 11 Jessie Fauset and the Historiography of the Harlem Renaissance No access
2. 12 Space and the Shape of a Life No access
3. 13 The Sexual Commodities, Racial Economies, and Critical Oversights of Felice Swados’s House of Fury No access
1. 14 Langston Hughes and the Challenges of Populist Art No access
2. 15 Orality, History, and Narration No access
3. 16 Romare Bearden’s Li’l Dan the Drummer Boy No access
1. 17 “Heritage” in America No access
2. 18 What Is Ralph Ellison All About? No access
3. 19 Writing across Borders No access
4. 20 A Native Son Abroad No access
Epilogue No access Pages 285 - 330
Index No access Pages 331 - 346
About the Editors and Contributors No access Pages 347 - 353