Centering Borders in Latin American and South Asian Contexts
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Centering Borders in Latin American and South Asian Contexts

Aesthetics and Politics of Cultural Production

  1. 254 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Centering Borders in Latin American and South Asian Contexts

Aesthetics and Politics of Cultural Production

About this book

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 introduces frameworks of critical insights and knowledge on border narratives and cultural productions. It addresses and goes beyond the impact of the partition in South Asia to train a unique comparative and aesthetic lens on borders and borderlands in relation to Latin America and the U.S.A. through oral narratives, photographs, 'objects', films, theatre, journals, and songs. It maps border perspectives and their reception in a framework of cultural politics. It revolves around themes such as violence and modes of survival; women's narratives of migration, trafficking and incarceration; abduction of children; vulnerability as experience; rationalities of mass killings; and proliferation of countercultures to map border perspectives in a framework of cultural politics.

First of its kind, the volume will be useful to scholars and researchers of comparative literary and cultural studies, South Asian studies, Latin American studies, border studies, arts and aesthetics, visual studies, sociology, comparative politics, international relations, and peace and conflict resolution studies.

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Yes, you can access Centering Borders in Latin American and South Asian Contexts by Debaroti Chakraborty, Debra A. Castillo, Kavita Panjabi, Debaroti Chakraborty,Debra A. Castillo,Kavita Panjabi in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politics & International Relations & Art & Politics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures
  7. List of Contributors
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Introduction
  10. Part I Oral Narratives: Experiencing Violence, Forging Modes of Survival
  11. Part II Photography: The Ethics of ‘Evidence’ and Erasure/Elision
  12. Part III Cinematic Representations: Vulnerability as Experience and Metaphor
  13. Part IV Audio/Visual Languages of Perception: Humour and Satire – Subversion as Resistance
  14. Part V Songs: Transformations of Identity across Borders
  15. Part VI Performance: Challenging Rationalities of Mass Killings
  16. Index