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Language: English Pages: 288 About the Book Border and Border Crossings; Reading Partition, Reading Diaspora engages with the impossibility inevitability of borders, and the inevitability/impossibility of their crossings. The book maps the literary and cultural narrativization of complex experiences that human movements across borders/boundaries produce. This is an equally fascinating study of how literary, cultural texts and textual structures inform such experiences. The narrativization of experience(s) of homelessness, fragmentation, loss of identity and the imaginative recreation of home/identity within an unheimlich space, has often shaped politico-socially viable identity positions, and motivated politico- social struggles to achieve the same. In conceptual terms, borders, boundaries operate as the organizing principle and that brings together these two areas (Partition of India and Diaspora) of examination. For another, the colonial intervention in the Indian subcontinent inevitably necessitates a study of South Asian diasporas and Partition movements, together. The violence of the colonial intervention acerbated the problematics of borders, politics of identity, and made the study of these area in their intersectional overlappings, inevitable. This interdisciplinary volume is marked by explorations of diverse border crossing experiences, and myriad generic forms that make such experiences palpable. About the Author's Professor Deb Narayan Bandyopadhyay is the Honourable Vice-Chancellor of Bankura University, Bankura, West Bengal, India. He is an Honorary Research