Crossing Borders

Tapan Basu is associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Delhi.Tasneem Shahnaaz is associate professor in the Department of English, Sri Aurobindo College, University of Delhi.

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.

• PrefaceIntroductionTapan Basu and Tasneem ShahnaazPart I: Multiculturalism and Its Discontents1 Out of Line: Shifting Border Paradigms in Cooper, Morrison, and YamashitaSilvia Schultermandl2 Wave or Particle?: Crossing Borders in Ruth Ozeki’s novel A Tale for the Time Being (2013)Peter Schmidt3 Translating across the Borders: Sui Sin Far and Other Interethnic/Interstitial Asian American SubjectsMartha J. Cutter4 Dancing with Italians: Chicago’s Italians in Fact, and in the Fiction of Willard MotleyFred GardaphePart II: Nation and Sub-Nation5 Creating Kashmir: Gender, Politics, and Violence in Meena Arora Nayak’s Endless RainRobin E. Field6 Drawing the Durand Line: Pakistani Afghans, Borders, and Transnational InsecurityZubeda Jalalzai7 Teaching Giovanni’s Room in the Shadow of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Denaturalizing PrivilegeCatherine RottenbergPart III: Diaspora and Trans-Nation8 Diasporic Subjectivity: Dhan Gopal Mukerji’s Caste and Outcast and Sadhu Singh Dhami’s MalukaNalini Iyer9 A Partition without Borders: Diasporic Readings of Clear Light of Day and Train to PakistanRahul K. Gairola10 Caste, Race, and Intellectual History: Notes on a Singular ModernityAuritro MajumderPart IV: Gendered Identities11 Jessie Fauset and the Historiography of the Harlem RenaissanceCheryl A. Wall12 Space and the Shape of a Life: Placing Nella LarsenThadious M. Davis13 The Sexual Commodities, Racial Economies, and Critical Oversights of Felice Swados’s House of FuryAyesha K. HardisonPart V: Art: Between the Popular and the Populist14 Langston Hughes and the Challenges of Populist ArtArnold Rampersad15 Orality, History, and Narration: The Aesthetics of ListeningJasbir Jain16 Romare Bearden’s Li’l Dan the Drummer Boy: Coloring a Story of the Civil WarRobert B. SteptoPart VI: Journeys across Art and Life17 “Heritage” in America: A Literary StrollWerner Sollors18 What Is Ralph Ellison All About?: A Retrospective ViewCharles Johnson19 Writing across Borders: Race and Gender in Elleke Boehmer’s FictionLynda Ng20 A Native Son Abroad: A Conversation with Amritjit SinghNibir K. GhoshEpilogue: Amritjit Singh: Reflections and StoriesRajiva Verma, Ved Prakash, Houston A. Baker, RoshniRustomji-Kerns, K. D. Verma, David Ray, Judy Ray, MeenaAlexander, J. N. Sharma, Sachidananda Mohanty, PradyumnaS. Chauhan, Malashri Lal, Sudhi Rajiv, Tapan Basu, Daniel M.Scott, Joseph A. Conforti, Richard Olmstead, Barbara A.Silliman, Zubeda Jalalzai, Gert Buelens, Robert Elliot Fox,Bruce Dick, C. Lok Chua, Wendy Barker, Chitra BanerjeeDivakaruni, John C. Hawley, Shauna Singh Baldwin, SaminaNajmi, Rajini Srikanth, Nita N. Kumar, Altaf Ullah Khan,Marsha L. Dutton, Vladimir Marchenkov, Richard A. Courage,Heba Sharobeem and Ira DworkinIndexAbout the Editors and Contributors