Crossing Borders
Subtitle: Essays on Literature, Culture, and Society in Honor of Amritjit Singh
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: May 04, 2017
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9781611478990
Description: 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, and 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. -- Back cover.
Notes: Source title: Crossing Borders: Essays on Literature, Culture, and Society in Honor of Amritjit Singh