Transgressing Frontiers

The focus of this
book is to assess, through language and literary studies in
interpretation, the epistemic representation of frontiers in its
shifting and fixing categories. The contributing researchers stress on
the fact that crisscrossing has taken its toll on communities and
disciplines and that hegemonic positions are becoming increasingly
redundant and provocative. Frontier discourse is therefore, a
socio-political and culturally oriented discourse. Importing it to
language and literary studies also shows that literary circles like
language are equally shifting and erasing borderlines. The chapters
discuss crisscrossing of frontiers both as geography and epistemology.
This is in line with the new cultural ontology that opens up new
interpretations and shifts from previous ones in the disciplines of
Language, Linguistics, Arts and Literature.

The book pulls
together a wide range of issues based on a plurality of theoretical
assumptions. The issues presented are grouped into three broad sections.
Section one looks at the creation of the self as a way to dismantle the
other. In section two, the focus is on linguistic shifts and the fact
that all languages need space in multilingual societies. And section
three shows how people travel out of their homelands to seek comfort.
Resourceful, insightful and incisive, the book offers depth and breadth
in refined scholarship. The contributors are masterly in their handling
of borderlines between ideology and iconoclasm, globalisation and
nationalism, memory and nation, gender and identity, official and
indigenous languages, self /other dialectics, migration and identity.
The book is an invaluable asset to researchers and students with a
penchant for interdisciplinarity, intertextuality, multiculturalism and
globalisation.