Cross-Fertilizing Roots and Routes

Chapter 1 Cross-Fertilizing Roots and Routes: An Introduction and an Invitation

Chapter 2 Cross-Fertilizing Roots and Routes: Ethnicity, Sociocultural Regeneration, and Planetary Realizations

Chapter 3 Earth and World: Roots and Routes

Chapter 4 First and Second Nature

Chapter 5 Cosmopoesis: Navigating the Strangeness of Planetary Realizations

Chapter 6 Understanding “Roots and Routes” from a Post-Kantian Tradition of Critique

Chapter 7 Transversal Communication and Boundaries of Identification

Chapter 8 Deconstructing and Reconstructing Identity: A Transformational Transcontinental Journey

Chapter 9 There Is a Thread That You Follow: Identity, Journey and Destiny

Chapter 10 Reconciling the Self with the Other: An Existentialist Perspective on the Management of Ethnic Conflicts in Africa

Chapter 11 Migration, Myth, and History: A Cross-Border Case Study

Chapter 12 From the Danger of the Routes to the Alleged Certainty About the Roots: The Journey to India from the Early Eighteenth to the Late Nineteenth Centuries

Chapter 14 Rethinking Postcolonial Identity: Caught in the Spiral of Violence

Chapter 15 In Search of Territory: Women’s Existential Traverse Through Varied Routes

Chapter 16 Making a Commonsense over Roots and Routes in a Time of Emotional Turmoil: The Marwaris and the Nationalist Use of Kunti’s Suffering Self to Construct the Imagery of an Idealized Indian Womanhood

Chapter 17 Crossing the Border: A Postcolonial Discourse of Double Consciousness and Multiple Solidarities with Reference to the Texts Brick Lane and The Mistress of Spices

Chapter 18 Roots and Routes: The Novels of Su Tamilselvi and Kanmani Gunasekaran

Chapter 19 The Roots and Routes of Mourning: Performing Craft and Community in Migrant Cultures in India

Chapter 20 Cinematic Representation of Disability from Pity to Human Rights in India: Investigating the Changing Roots and Routes

Chapter 21 Transnational Communities: The Quest for Development and South-South Connections

Chapter 22 Afterword: The Intersection Between Roots and Routes