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Centering Borders in Latin American and South Asian Contexts: Aesthetics and Politics of Cultural Production book cover

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Centering Borders in Latin American and South Asian Contexts Aesthetics and Politics of Cultural Production

Edited By Debaroti Chakraborty, Debra A. Castillo, Kavita Panjabi Copyright 2023
266 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

266 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

266 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India
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This book presents inter-disciplinary research on contemporary borders with contributions from scholars and cultural practitioners located in different contexts in the Americas and South Asia. There has been significant sociological work on borders; however there is a relative dearth of humanities research on contemporary border realities, particularly in South Asia. This volume... Read more

Introduction

Debaroti Chakraborty, Debra A. Castillo and Kavita Panjabi

 

Part I: Oral Narratives: Experiencing Violence, Forging Modes of Survival

1. Mobility across Borders, Continuums of Violence and Resistance

Rimple Mehta

 

2. Defying the Nation: Women’s Narratives of US–Mexico and India–Bangladesh ‘Border’ Crossings

Debaroti Chakraborty

 

Part II: Photography: The Ethics of ‘Evidence’ and Erasure/Elision

3. Abduction/Oblivion: Villafuerte’s Por el lado salvaje

Debra A. Castillo

 

4. Witnessing and the Transformation of Self: Borders and The Violence of ‘Evidence’

Kavita Panjabi

 

Part III: Cinematic Representations: Vulnerability as Experience and Metaphor

5. The Atlantic Borderlands: Container Politics, Social Death and the Countercultures of Mexican Migrants

Melissa Castillo Planas

 

6. What is the Kid Doing at the Border? Some Thoughts on Representations of Children in Indian and Latin American Border-themed Cinema

Sucheta Bhattacharya

 

Part IV: Audio-/Visual Languages of Perception: Humour and Satire — Subversion as Resistance

7. Humourising Tension: Bengali Identity, Partition and Borders

Parthasarathi Bhaumik

 

8. Chhitmahal: Subjectivity, Resistance and Identities 

Sawon Chakraborty

 

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 

Moushumi Bhowmik

 

10. Surmounting Borders: The Corridos of Jenni Rivera

Minni Sawhney

 

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! 

Kavita Panjabi, Debaroti Chakraborty and Debasish Sen Sharma

 

12. Teatro Travieso and the Performance of Feminicide in Women of Ciudad Juárez

Jimmy A. Noriega

Biography

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.

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