Centering Borders in Latin American and South Asian Contexts

Aesthetics and Politics of Cultural Production
Herausgeber: Chakraborty, Debaroti; Panjabi, Kavita; Castillo, Debra A

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Produktbeschreibung

This book presents new frameworks of critical insights and knowledge on border narratives. It addresses and goes beyond the ways in which partition informs South Asian borderlands to focus on a comparative study of contemporary borders and borderlands in relation to Latin America and the US side of the border.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9780367404826
• ISBN-10: 0367404826
• Artikelnr.: 63395605

Autorenporträt

Debaroti Chakraborty is Assistant Professor in the Department of Performing Arts, Presidency University, India. Debra A. Castillo is Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, Emerson Hinchliff Professor of Hispanic Studies, and Professor of Comparative Literature at Cornell University, USA, where she directs the Migration Studies minor. Kavita Panjabi is former Professor of Comparative Literature and Founder of the Centre for Studies in Latin American Literatures & Cultures at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I: Oral Narratives: Experiencing Violence, Forging Modes
of Survival 1. Mobility across Borders, Continuums of Violence and
Resistance 2. Defying the Nation: Women's Narratives of US-Mexico and
India-Bangladesh 'Border' Crossings Part II: Photography: The Ethics of
'Evidence' and Erasure/Elision 3. Abduction/Oblivion: Villafuerte's Por el
lado salvaje 4. Witnessing and the Transformation of Self: Borders and The
Violence of 'Evidence' Part III: Cinematic Representations: Vulnerability
as Experience and Metaphor 5. The Atlantic Borderlands: Container Politics,
Social Death and the Countercultures of Mexican Migrants 6. What is the Kid
Doing at the Border? Some Thoughts on Representations of Children in Indian
and Latin American Border-themed Cinema Part IV: Audio-/Visual Languages of
Perception: Humour and Satire - Subversion as Resistance 7. Humourising
Tension: Bengali Identity, Partition and Borders 8. Chhitmahal:
Subjectivity, Resistance and Identities Part V: Songs: Transformations of
Identity across Borders 9. Songs of Crossings: Searching for Ways of
Listening to Arnold Bake's 1934 Recordings of Sailors from Bengal 10.
Surmounting Borders: The Corridos of Jenni Rivera Part VI: Performance:
Challenging Rationalities of Mass Killings 11. What is Lost and Regained in
Staging Violent Realities: Thinking of Dear Earth...Hope You Are Keeping
Well! 12. Teatro Travieso and the Performance of Feminicide in Women of
Ciudad Juárez