Crossing Borders: Post 1980 Subcontinental Writing in English - Hardcover

Jain, Jasbir

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8131602516 ISBN 13: 9788131602515

Publisher: Rawat, 2009

Synopsis

Crossing Borders explores the movement of cultures, ideas, and peoples across geographic and generic borders. It is amazing the kinds of borders that hedge us in, some of which we construct and even cross at times without realizing that the 'will' is actively involved. There is both the pain of separation and the joy of discovery, a degree of radicalism associated with every transgressive act, even as it forges new connections. The book takes up a host of issues ranging from migrations of peoples and histories, crossing linguistic, generic, and disciplinary borders to nostalgia, pain, loss of faith, and its recovery. It discusses violence, terrorism, and networkings that fail to be contained by the nation state. Issues of gender heterogeneities, alternative subjectivities, emerging visibility of the third gender, and institutional breakdowns are also explored. The contributions, by reputed authors and scholars from India/South Asia - including Nayantara Sahgal, Jean Arasanayagam, Suniti Namjoshi, Keki Daruwalla, E.V. Ramakrishnan, Usha Bande, Sudha Shastri, Savyasaachi Jain, Shyamala Narayan, Purabi Panwar, and Jasbir Jain - create space for further crossings.

About this title

About the Author:

Jasbir Jain is director of the Institute for Research in Interdisciplinary Studies (IRIS), Jaipur. Formerly of the University of Rajasthan, she has headed the Department of English and has worked in various capacities including the directorship of the Academic Staff College.Jain has travelled extensively and has been the recipient of several awards. Amongst them are the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship as Writer in Residence (2009), UGC Fellow (2005 2007), Emeritus Fellow (2002 2004) and K.K. Birla Fellowship for Comparative Literature (1998 2000). Elected life-member of Clare Hall, Cambridge, she has also availed of the Fulbright Fellowship and of the American Council of Learned Societies. In 2008, the South Asia Literary Association conferred on her the SALA Award for her work in Feminist and South Asian Studies and her distinguished scholarship. Earlier in 2004, she was awarded the Indian Association of Canadian Studies (IACS) Award in recognition of her outstanding contribution to Canadian Studies. The American Association of Colleges and Universities nominated her a Global Fellow for 2003.Her publications include three volumes on the Indian novel covering the period 1860 2000 and, interrogating the periodisation thrust on it, she went on to work on the connectivity across languages. Her current interests are in theory and narratology and in exploring traditions. Her recent work includes "Gendered Realities "and "Beyond Postcolonialism: The Dreams and Realities of a Nation "and a forthcoming work is "The Writer as Critic".

About this edition

• Publisher: Rawat
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 8131602516
• ISBN 13: 9788131602515
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 270