Diaspora in Fiction Many hues many shades

Call for papers for anthology-

Diaspora in Fiction Many hues many shades

EDITOR–Dr Farzana S Ali

The volume will be published with an ISBN (International Standard Book Number) by a renowned publisher.

Diasporic fiction written in English deals  with  writers rooted in India and who wrote entirely about the subcontinent and its people based on their vision and experience of Indians. It was Kamala Markandaya's The Nowhere Man (1972) that began a phase of the diasporic novel in English where characters from the subcontinent are set in overseas locales to depict the complexities of acculturation, but it was only in the 1980s that a generation of writers emerged who were mostly bent on telling diasporic stories. Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses (1988) no doubt attracted disproportionate attention due to its controversial treatment of Asian immigrants in England, but many other novelists of the subcontinent preoccupied themselves with tales set in the West that dealt with what Bharati Mukherjee had characterized as aloofness of expatriation or the exuberance of immigration. Amitav Ghosh in the The Circle of Reason (1986) told stories of the outward flow of dispossessed people to the Middle East or beyond while the Pakistani born Bapsi Sidhwa, now settled in the United States, combined her experience of continents in An American Brat (1994)and Monica Ali, a writer of Bangladeshi origin, juxtaposed immigrant lives with Deshi ones in Brick Lane (2003). These novels by writers who have settled overseas or moved to the West in their childhood or are descendants of Indian families who have become immigrants for some time now; are written from a desire to overcome feelings of aloofness and loss incurred by diasporas and by a longing for reconciliation with what was left behind; they all straddle cultures and attempt to unite families and people across space, time, political and racial borders . In an attempt to discover the many shades of Diasporic writings I intend to bring an anthology  to be published by a renowned publisher. We request you to  contribute by submitting  your research papers  as per the following - Editing requirements:

• Title of the paper: bold.
• Text of the paper: justified. Font & size: Times New Roman 12.
• References: Please follow MLA style (Only Author-Date or Number System) strictly.
• Articles should be submitted as MS Word 2003-2007 attachments only.
• The paper should not exceed 3000 words• A short bio-note of the contributor(s) indicating name, institution , postal address, mobile number and e-mail.

·         Each contribution will be charged Rs. 1000/- towards the cost of printing, editing and courier services.

Mode of Submission:

Each contributor is advised to send full paper with brief bio-note  as a single MS-Word email attachments to email addresses: alifarzana12@rediffmail.com Please send your contributions  by 25^th Feb 2015 for early publication.