2010
DOI: 10.3917/etan.623.0305
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“Step across this line”: edges and borders in contemporary Indian literature

Abstract: Résumé Cet article analyse les modes selon lesquels la littérature indienne contemporaine aborde la poétique de la frontière dans le contexte postcolonial et dans celui des nouvelles configurations d’un ordre mondial conçu comme une zone de migrations transnationales où les tensions communautaires s’affirment toutefois violemment. D’une part, les romans indiens prennent acte des lignes dures et des cadres qui définissent l’individu, la société et la nation, et offrent un sentiment de stabilité mais aussi de fi… Show more

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“…Writing from "extreme edges" (Cilano, 2009), worlds "colliding" (Waterman, 2016), liminality (Chambers, 2011), lines and border crossing (Guignery, 2009): spatial metaphors abound when South Asian and Pakistani writing is depicted, and the idea of the transgression of borders is associated with both Indian and Pakistani writing. Pakistani fiction occupies shifting ground: it stands as a historically and politically over-determined territory, fashioned by two partitions, and has been at the forefront of contemporary geopolitical turmoil since 9/11 and the state's involvement in Operation Enduring Freedom.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Writing from "extreme edges" (Cilano, 2009), worlds "colliding" (Waterman, 2016), liminality (Chambers, 2011), lines and border crossing (Guignery, 2009): spatial metaphors abound when South Asian and Pakistani writing is depicted, and the idea of the transgression of borders is associated with both Indian and Pakistani writing. Pakistani fiction occupies shifting ground: it stands as a historically and politically over-determined territory, fashioned by two partitions, and has been at the forefront of contemporary geopolitical turmoil since 9/11 and the state's involvement in Operation Enduring Freedom.…”
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confidence: 99%