Preface ix
Introduction xi
Tapan Basu and Tasneem Shahnaaz
Part I: Multiculturalism and Its Discontents 1
1 Out of Line: Shifting Border Paradigms in Cooper, Morrison,
and Yamashita 3
Silvia Schultermandl
2 Wave or Particle?: Crossing Borders in Ruth Ozeki’s novel A
Tale for the Time Being (2013) 17
Peter Schmidt
3 Translating across the Borders: Sui Sin Far and Other
Interethnic/Interstitial Asian American Subjects 31
Martha J. Cutter
4 Dancing with Italians: Chicago’s Italians in Fact, and in the
Fiction of Willard Motley 47
Fred Gardaphe
Part II: Nation and Sub-Nation 63
5 Creating Kashmir: Gender, Politics, and Violence in Meena
Arora Nayak’s Endless Rain 65
Robin E. Field
6 Drawing the Durand Line: Pakistani Afghans, Borders, and
Transnational Insecurity 79
Zubeda Jalalzai
7 Teaching Giovanni’s Room in the Shadow of the Israeli-
Palestinian Conflict: Denaturalizing Privilege 95
Catherine Rottenberg
Part III: Diaspora and Trans-Nation 107
8 Diasporic Subjectivity: Dhan Gopal Mukerji’s Caste and
Outcast and Sadhu Singh Dhami’s Maluka 109
Nalini Iyer
9 A Partition without Borders: Diasporic Readings of Clear Light
of Day and Train to Pakistan 119
Rahul K. Gairola
10 Caste, Race, and Intellectual History: Notes on a Singular
Modernity 135
Auritro Majumder
Part IV: Gendered Identities 147
11 Jessie Fauset and the Historiography of the Harlem Renaissance 149
Cheryl A. Wall
12 Space and the Shape of a Life: Placing Nella Larsen 165
Thadious M. Davis
13 The Sexual Commodities, Racial Economies, and Critical
Oversights of Felice Swados’s House of Fury 183
Ayesha K. Hardison
Part V: Art: Between the Popular and the Populist 197
14 Langston Hughes and the Challenges of Populist Art 199
Arnold Rampersad
15 Orality, History, and Narration: The Aesthetics of Listening 215
Jasbir Jain
16 Romare Bearden’s Li’l Dan the Drummer Boy: Coloring a Story
of the Civil War 225
Robert B. Stepto
Part VI: Journeys across Art and Life 233
17 “Heritage” in America: A Literary Stroll 235
Werner Sollors
18 What Is Ralph Ellison All About?: A Retrospective View 251
Charles Johnson
Contents vii
19 Writing across Borders: Race and Gender in Elleke Boehmer’s
Fiction 259
Lynda Ng
20 A Native Son Abroad: A Conversation with Amritjit Singh 269
Nibir K. Ghosh
Epilogue: Amritjit Singh: Reflections and Stories 285
Rajiva Verma, Ved Prakash, Houston A. Baker, Roshni
Rustomji-Kerns, K. D. Verma, David Ray, Judy Ray, Meena
Alexander, J. N. Sharma, Sachidananda Mohanty, Pradyumna
S. 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 Banerjee
Divakaruni, John C. Hawley, Shauna Singh Baldwin, Samina
Najmi, Rajini Srikanth, Nita N. Kumar, Altaf Ullah Khan,
Marsha L. Dutton, Vladimir Marchenkov, Richard A. Courage,
Heba Sharobeem and Ira Dworkin
Index 331
About the Editors and Contributors 347