Borderlines Volume 1

Borderlines Volume 1 features essayists from Houston, Mexico, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and the US/Mexico border, and includes scholarly articles, creative nonfiction, poetry, photography, interviews, and more. The pieces in this catalogue share a common focus on things that went wrong for certain groups when a new border was imposed and sensitively describe what happens to cultural, national, or linguistic identities that a new border stigmatizes, garbles, or renders untenable. The...
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Borderlines Volume 1 features essayists from Houston, Mexico, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and the US/Mexico border, and includes scholarly articles, creative nonfiction, poetry, photography, interviews, and more. The pieces in this catalogue share a common focus on things that went wrong for certain groups when a new border was imposed and sensitively describe what happens to cultural, national, or linguistic identities that a new border stigmatizes, garbles, or renders untenable. The authors and artists employ an array of strategies to re-assert or reinvent cultural identities disrupted by politically expedient but socially disruptive borderlines, Their inventive re-conceptions of self, culture and community offer valuable inspiration to keep seeking ways to listen and exchange ideas across borders, and to co-create new, border-disruptive expressions, spaces and collectives.