{"product_id":"crossing-borders-essays-on-literature-culture-and-society-in-honor-of-amritjit-singh-9781611478990","title":"Crossing Borders: Essays on Literature, Culture,","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCrossing 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReaders will easily conclude that Singh is not only beloved by the participants gathered in these pages, but deeply respected.. . . . A forty-six-page appendix to the volume includes reminiscences (all warm, some straight-laced, some funny) of Amritjit Singh by a healthy number of prominent scholars and writers, including K.D. Verma, Meena Alexander, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Shauna Singh Baldwin, Houston A. Baker, John C. Hawley, and Marsha L. Dutton. These, along with a tight preface, thoughtful introduction, a thorough index, and ample biographies of all contributors, help make this carefully edited volume of essays a fitting and invaluable tribute to Singh. * South Asian Review *\u003cbr\u003eFrom its title to its delightful stories, Crossing Borders speaks perfectly to the rich contributions Amrit has made to literary study. It crosses borders of identity, nation, and art in ways that open our eyes—and our minds—to the multiple cultures he has been so instrumental in enabling us to see and to engage. A brilliant festschrift to celebrate the importance of Amritjit Singh’s work—and also his life as a colleague and friend. -- Paul Lauter, Allan K. \u0026amp; Gwendolyn Miles Smith Professor of Literature (emeritus), Trinity College\u003cbr\u003eCrossing Borders promises to be one of the most exciting publishing events in the academy in a decade, inscribing a long overdue tribute to Amritjit Singh, one of my finest colleagues and a leading humanist scholar of his generation. That Amrit is the subject of honor here is itself remarkable testimony to the real and symbolic value of different cultural subjects gathering across borders to express their affectionate regard for an unrelenting worker in the ‘contact zone’ of a plethora of cultures. -- Hortense Spillers, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English, Vanderbilt University\u003cbr\u003eA rigorous, coherent, and superbly timed collection of essays, Crossing Borders pays rich and eloquent tribute to Professor Amritjit Singh’s distinguished and ongoing contributions to perennial ‘border crossings’ and does justice not just to the uniqueness of Amritjit’s conjunctural presence and significance as a scholar, teacher, and public intellectual, but also to the themes and issues that have constituted his cosmopolitan agenda over the years. -- R. Radhakrishnan, Chancellor’s Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine\u003cbr\u003eThis excellent collection of essays does the nearly impossible task of representing both the depth and range of Amritjit Singh’s work, extending across national borders, historical periods, and literary boundaries to represent an incredibly broad range of topics that, in the end, all seem intricately interconnected.  Singh’s work has been a challenge to those less willing to follow those global and historical dynamics, and Crossing Borders, including essays by many of the best scholars working in these fields today, is a gift and an example for all those who have taken up Singh’s call to action. -- John Ernest, Judge Hugh M. Morris Professor of English, University of Delaware\u003cbr\u003eAmritjit Singh is a respected scholar, teacher, and friend. This fine collection of essays is a tribute to Amrit’s personal courage and intellectual willingness to transgress borders and establish a common humanity with people everywhere. These are important attributes in our times when people want to assert their differences than seek a conversation which is always inconclusive. Maybe the question King Vikramaditya asks in an ancient text of moral riddles best describes Amrit’s life-history: “What country is foreign to the learned?” -- Alok Bhalla, author of Partition Dialogues and Stories About the Partition of India (4 Volumes)\u003cbr\u003eIn this imagined salon of notable international scholars joined by their friendship and admiration for Amritjit Singh, transnational studies and border studies intersect with feminist recuperation of historical oversights, South-Asian remappings, and African American literary analyses to explore the permeability of race and other borders.  Highly recommended. -- John C. Hawley, Santa Clara University\u003cbr\u003eIn order to understand the scope and breadth of Amritjit Singh’s contributions to global letters, one need only look at the list of contributors, who are among the most important voices in the field.  Indeed, Crossing Borders makes a strong and persuasive argument that African American literary and cultural studies is a global project taking place in multiple locations both inside and outside the U.S. Beyond a doubt, Amrit has been witness to myriad configurations of knowledge production—including multiculturalism, gender studies, transnationalism, and literary historiography. -- Herman Beavers, Professor of English and African American Studies, U of Pennsylvania\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface 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","brand":"Fairleigh Dickinson University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041695203671,"sku":"9781611478990","price":97.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781611478990.jpg?v=1750951339","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/crossing-borders-essays-on-literature-culture-and-society-in-honor-of-amritjit-singh-9781611478990","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}