The Relationality of Borders in Geetanjali Shree’ Tomb of Sand
This article examines the tensions between conceptions of bordering processes as connective or divisive in the context of Indian Partition literature. The analysis concentrates on Geetanjali Shree’s Tomb of Sand (2022) and how its representation of borders as relational gives way to alternative coll...
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Postcolonial Literatures and Arts
2025
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| Dostęp online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Streszczenie: | This article examines the tensions between conceptions of bordering processes as connective or divisive in the context of Indian Partition literature. The analysis concentrates on Geetanjali Shree’s Tomb of Sand (2022) and how its representation of borders as relational gives way to alternative collective directions that depart from linear narratives of modernity and delink from colonial legacies. Shree represents modern India as a place in which everyone and everything is connected to one another, which arguably contests the ubiquity of divisive borders (we/they, good/bad, Indian/foreign). |
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