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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 ...
‘This was the city from which my grandmother, hugging two teenage sons close to her, had boarded a ship packed tight with refugees heading for Bombay—never to see her homeland again.’ With this sentence starts a journey across time and several borders—including those of the mind—as the author begins a quest back into the past to understand how dislocation and loss of home impacts on families and how it interweaves with history to create the present we ...
'This was the city from which my grandmother, hugging two teenage sons close to her, had boarded a ship packed tight with refugees heading for Bombay' never to see her homeland again.' With this sentence starts a journey across time and several borders'including those of the mind'as the author begins a quest back into the past to understand how dislocation and loss of home impacts on families and how it interweaves with history to create the present we inhabit. ...