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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, 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.
Published | 04 May 2017 |
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Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 376 |
ISBN | 9781611479003 |
Imprint | Fairleigh Dickinson University Press |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Readers 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
From 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. & Gwendolyn Miles Smith Professor of Literature (emeritus), Trinity College
Crossing 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
A 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
This 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
Amritjit 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)
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