Cartographies of Affect: Across Borders in South Asia and the Americas
This compendium of 19 essays seeks to examine the experiences of borders in South Asia and the America. It explores the significance and impact of political, cultural and racial borders from the times of the Partition of the Indian sub-continent to the contemporary era of globalization, with a focus on issues of language, identity, sexuality and exclusion.
It also deals with the literary as well as cultural texts, including oral narratives, of the sufferings of victims of partition and makes an analytical study of the various reasons responsible for border crossings, modernity and construction of space and community, creation of spaces for women, ethnicity across borders, multilingualism, search for identity and the psychology of children in the border zone.
Get it now and save 10%
BECOME A MEMBER
Bibliographic information
Kavita Panjabi