Centering Borders in Latin American and South Asian Contexts

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.

Introduction Part I: Oral Narratives: Experiencing Violence, Forging Modes of Survival 1. Mobility across Borders, Continuums of Violence and Resistance 2. Defying the Nation: Women’s Narratives of US–Mexico and India–Bangladesh ‘Border’ Crossings Part II: Photography: The Ethics of ‘Evidence’ and Erasure/Elision 3. Abduction/Oblivion: Villafuerte’s Por el lado salvaje 4. Witnessing and the Transformation of Self: Borders and The Violence of ‘Evidence’ Part III: Cinematic Representations: Vulnerability as Experience and Metaphor 5. The Atlantic Borderlands: Container Politics, Social Death and the Countercultures of Mexican Migrants 6. What is the Kid Doing at the Border? Some Thoughts on Representations of Children in Indian and Latin American Border-themed Cinema Part IV: Audio-/Visual Languages of Perception: Humour and Satire — Subversion as Resistance 7. Humourising Tension: Bengali Identity, Partition and Borders 8. Chhitmahal: Subjectivity, Resistance and Identities 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 10. Surmounting Borders: The Corridos of Jenni Rivera 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! 12. Teatro Travieso and the Performance of Feminicide in Women of Ciudad Juárez