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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 "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 Preface; Introduction; Part I: Multiculturalism and Its Discontents; 1 Out of Line; 2 Wave or Particle?; 3 Translating across the Borders; 4 Dancing with Italians; Part II: Nation and Sub-Nation; 5 Creating Kashmir; 6 Drawing the Durand Line; 7 Teaching Giovanni's Room in the Shadow of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict; Part III: Diaspora and Trans-Nation; 8 Diasporic Subjectivity; 9 A Partition without Borders; 10 Caste, Race, and Intellectual History; Part IV: Gendered Identities; 11 Jessie Fauset and the Historiography of the Harlem Renaissance; 12 Space and the Shape of a Life 13 The Sexual Commodities, Racial Economies, and Critical Oversights of Felice Swados's House of FuryPart V: Art: Between the Popular and the Populist; 14 Langston Hughes and the Challenges of Populist Art; 15 Orality, History, and Narration; 16 Romare Bearden's Li'l Dan the Drummer Boy; Part VI: Journeys across Art and Life; 17 "Heritage" in America; 18 What Is Ralph Ellison All About?; 19 Writing across Borders; 20 A Native Son Abroad; Epilogue; Index; About the Editors and Contributors
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