Canara Bank Started Releasing MANF Fellowship...

Congrats Friends,

Canara Bank started crediting the MANF fellowship amount in your account, So please check your account. If you got it then good or else you contact the Branch where you submitted the documents. The process is like that the concerned branch will scan all the documents you submitted and send it to Delhi head branch and the Delhi branch will credit your account directly. So, if your branch has not submitted all the things to Delhi Main branch, Call them and say them to enhance the process. Don’t worry you will get it soon.

For the students who submitted in Hyderabad branch…

Though you people submitted it earliest but unfortunately the bank did not have a big scanner so they could not process the things. They got it today and they will send it soon. I talked to them, the promised that by next week we will get it. I called the Delhi Main branch too. They said they will call the Hyderabad branch to enhance the process. One more factor is in Hyderabad lots of students are there so it is taking time. Nearly 15 universities and lots of institutions are there in this city and only University of Hyderabad has more than 25 candidates. So, don’t worry we will get it by next week.

Well see you and all the best…

How to Apply UGC December 2011 NET...

Felt nice that UGC has preserved all our records for NET application. If you applied previous time with an e mail id through that you can't register this time though by a new e mail id you can register. What you have to do is you have to go the "Forgot Password/Can't Access Account" section then give your old e mail id, date of birth and the security key. They will give you new password. Now you put the e mail id and password all your previous datas will come. No need to upload photo too, just simply apply with few click, modify if you need anything.

Attention: Date for fee submission and date for online application submission is extended up to Oct 31, 2011. Last date for submitting the hard copies of application to the chosen center is extended up to Nov 08, 2011...

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www.ugcnetonline.in

IACLALS ANNUAL CONFERENCE – FEBRUARY 2-4, 2012 - Text, Culture and Performance: Postcolonial Issues...

Co-hosted by Central University Jharkhand, Ranchi

The IACLALS Annual Conference 2012 on the theme Text, Culture and Performance: Postcolonial Issues will revisit the continuing and important debate within cultural studies on how texts are read, disseminated and performed to both reiterate and interrogate postcolonial paradigms and contexts. The Conference will be held at the Central University of Jharkhand, Ranchi, from February 2 to 4, 2012.
All texts are performative because they are socially constructed and not inherently possessed and in this, constantly contested and in a dynamic process of remaking. With this as a starting point, we aim to look at the ways in which culture gets written within a text and also how the performance of texts is shaped by culture in postcolonial contexts. Further, how the performance of a text transforms and/or translates meaning from the page into reality, we hope, would provide further contexts for conversations that will open out the registers of postcolonial literature to different expressions and (re)definitions, and admit a self-reflexivity into its theoretical postulates and premises.
In one context, we know that many postcolonial writers come from strong native oral traditions even as they seek to participate in the print-text market, exploring ways to infuse properties of the oral tradition into the printed text. In this they often struggle with, artistic and national identities, negotiating an indigenous cultural heritage with the realities of political and cultural colonization. What then are the spaces within the Indian postcolonial experience that use spectacle and performance and their discursive sweep to create archives of both ‘modern’ and ‘national’ memory, disseminated through texts that perform culture, even as they are culturally performed? How do identifiably ‘postcolonial’ issues – gender, race, religion, caste, class, ethnicity, borders, nationalism, imperialism, history, archive, sexuality, violence, memory – then circulate and shape themselves in the performance of texts in culture, and in cultural texts? Does performance change or direct our understanding of these texts, issues and cultures in specific ways? Some rubrics for discussion could be:

Politics of postcoloniality in performance
Acts of cultural translation
Postcolonial Literature into film
Theatre as a space for rethinking the postcolonial
Tradition and innovation in postcolonial dance
Colonial Texts, Postcolonial Transformations
The culture industry in the postcolonies
New technologies of production, circulation, reception
Music in postcolonial contexts
Questions of purity, hybridity, translation, trancreation
Comparativist frameworks
· Reading texts, performing contexts

Texts in transition: performance cultures
Culture and ideology
(Re)configuring the canon
Oral traditions and pressures of the print-market
· Performing identities in resistance

· Cultures of the popular:

· Writing memories, enacting histories

· Gendering cultures, engendering norms

· Post-ing the postcolonial: what comes after?



We invite abstracts of approximately 300 words on any aspect of the theme. These may be sent by 5th November 2011, to iaclalsconferences@gmail.com along with your full name, institutional affiliation and designation, contact address and phone number. If you wish to submit your paper for consideration for the C.D. Narasimhaiah Prize for the Best Paper Presented at the Conference, please send, besides the abstract, a complete text of your paper (running to no more than 2,200 words) by 15th December 2011.

VIII ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF INDIAN SOCIETY FOR THEATRE RESEARCH...

(In association with International Federation for Theatre Research)

9-11 February 2012
Indian Theatre and Pedagogy: National and International Perspective
Call for the Papers
There has been hardly any emphasis on theatre education before the independence of India, although there are strong indications of an organized system of theatre education in ancient period. The legacy of Natyshastra gives us a concrete picture of theatre pedagogy and its importance for the society.
However, throughout higher education history after independence, administration and faculty have argued about the importance of theatre education and its value as an academic discipline but within ivory towers of government buildings. Although Indian higher education’s acceptance of this lively art as a serious discipline has been comparatively slow but its importance to the liberal arts and the support of Indian theatre nonetheless has become well recognized. Formation of National School of
Drama, central and state academies and few other such institutions are the result of this enthusiasm.
Historically, reasons given for including theatre arts in institutions of higher learning were: 1. to teachlanguage and literature; 2. to bind society and culture; 3. to teach moral virtues; 4. to teach oratory and delivery; 5. to teach self confidence; and 6. to teach memory, etc. In the later period of the second half of the twentieth century, higher education emphasized two additional reasons: to train theatre professionals within academe and to establish a relationship between the educational campus and the surrounding community. While academic administrators, theatre scholars, and artists often discuss these reasons for keeping educational theatre a viable part of curriculum, very little discussion is given to the art of teaching or the pedagogical aspects of theatre education. But the fact is that despite several universities and colleges in the country boast of countless theatre programs, the instruction
taking place in these programs occurs with little attention to formal pedagogical theory or practice. Perhaps teachers, instructors, and scholars of theatre give little attention to how they teach the art because they themselves did not receive any particular orientation to theatre pedagogy. Nonetheless,theater education in all venues continue to offer, with notable success, instruction to major and non-major alike is the combination of multifarious and multifaceted systems rooted in classical, regional
and modern streams. The fact that we find some success in teaching this complex art form should encourage us to give the pedagogy some attention.

What may attribute to successful instructions in theatre and its saying in higher education can be
outlined as:
1. Theatre is an important, complex art intrinsic cultural interest that deserves thorough study.
2. The theatre experience is incredibly rich, diverse, and-most difficult of all- ephemeral; yet not
only possible but valuable to the future of theatre, and to the young people drawn to it, todevise teaching methods for understanding the art and mastering the crafts of the stage.
3. The theatre requires more than clever minds and willing hands; it demands a full commitment in the use of self (body, mind, and spirit) and an alert awareness of contemporary life (social, political, ideological, and cultural).
4. The art of theatre arises from a distinctive kind of talent, and an essential function of the theatre teacher is the recognition, nurturing, and development of the talent. The proposed central premises of theatre education only lay the foundation of theatre pedagogy.
Theatre educators entered in the twenty first century are faced additionally with new pedagogical challenges and experiences needed and often required to respond to a variety of late-twentieth century issues in higher education itself. The public’s increased call for accountability, the increased number of nontraditional students, the thrust of teaching with state-of-the-art technology, and appeals for better student preparation for successful navigation through a highly globalized and multicultural
market are just a few educational concerns driving the twenty-first century pedagogical train, and therefore theatre scholars and teachers as well.

The conference will be addressing the diverse and multiple characters of Indian theatre pedagogy, its present position, required and essential new directions. Broadly the following sub-themes, but not necessary to be limited, will be the constituents of the conference under the wider rubric of Indian Theatre and Pedagogy: National and International Perspective:
1. Theatre Pedagogy in Classical Sanskrit period
2. Theatre Training and Education in Regional Traditions
3. Major issues and challenges of theatre pedagogy in India
4. New Education Policy and Theatre Education
5. Theatre Education and Theatre in Education
6. Professional and amateur theatre and theatre pedagogy
7. Comparatives with international pedagogies
8. International impact on contemporary theatre teaching in higher education
9. State-of-art technology and theatre pedagogy
10. Globalization and theatre pedagogy
11. Social and Ideological obligation and theatre pedagogy
12. Requirement of a good teacher and assessment methods

We welcome proposals for general conference and for the Research Scholars’ Forum dealing with the subject. Papers must be no longer than twenty (20) minutes. Research Scholars may also submit short proposals for 10-minute papers on their research for presentation in specially organized sessions. All proposals should contain: author; title; 200-250 word abstract; intended audience [i.e., General Conference, or Research Scholars Forum];indication of technical facilities; brief biographical note on the author; full postal address; fax number and e-mail-address. The proposals should be sent by electronic mail at istr2012@flame.edu.in

Conference Venue: FLAME School of Performing Arts
Foundation for Liberal And Management Education
FLAME Campus
S. No. 1659, Lavale, Taluka Mulshi
Pune 411 042 (Maharashtra)
a. Submission of abstracts: 15 December 2011
b. Notification of acceptance of abstracts: 20 December 2011
c. Last Date for Early Registration 15 January 2012

ISTR Conference Fee:
a. Early registration
i. National participants: INR 1500
ii. Research Students (National) INR 750
iii. International participants USD 75 (to be paid in Indian currency)

b. Late Registration
i. National participants: INR 2000
ii. Research Students (National) INR 1000
iii. International participants USD 90 (to be paid in Indian currency)

The registration fee may be paid by Demand Draft in favour of "FLAME School of Liberal
Education" payable at Pune.

For online transfer, the details are as follows:
FLAME School of Liberal Education
Axis Bank Ltd.
Branch: Baner, Pune
Current A/c No: 338010100150255
Swift Code: AXISINBB037
RTGS Code: UTIB0000338
Customer ID: 338010023

For on the spot registration at the conference venue, only cash payment will be accepted.

Note-1:
Conference Fee includes conference kit, access to all conference events,
cultural events and theatre shows, boarding in university accommodation for
4 nights including breakfast, lunch and dinner (Arrival 8th
and departure 12th

February), coffee and snacks during conference and other curtsy special
events.
Those who need luxury accommodation may book at their own level;
however, the conference organizers may help their best to find out the
suitable one. Please note that the campus is on the outskirts of the city and it
is advisable to stay on campus.
The conference organizers may arrange suitable airport and railway pickups.
A separate notification will be circulated as soon as it is finalized.

Note-2:
The conference organizing committee is also trying to arrange couple of
theatre performances for the conference delegates and Local sightseeing tour
which will be notified separately. Financial Logistics:
Due to financial paucity and lack of other financial support, ISTR and FLAME is not in a
position to provide any kind of financial support towards the travel cost to national and
international participants, however, the efforts are being made to help the research scholars
and students to the maximum possible ways, which will be announced soon.

For further detail and contact:
Prof. Vidyanidhee Vanarase
Dean, FLAME School of Performing Arts
FLAME City Office
150/7, ‘Jaideep’, Prathamesh Park,
Baner-Balewadi Road
Pune 411 045
Email: istr2012@flame.edu.in AND prasad@flame.edu.in

You may also contact:
Prof. Ravi Chaturvedi
President (ISTR)
Email: ravicvdi@gmail.com

Prof. B. Ananthkrishnan
General Secretary (ISTR)
Email: ananthu60@gmail.com

National Conference on Urban Catharsis: The Psycho-Moral Cleansing Effects of Literatures in English NCUC 2012...

OBJECTIVE
This Conference on “Urban Catharsis: The Psycho-Moral Cleansing Effects of the Literatures in English” has a dual purpose: First of all it is a sincere attempt to encourage research and aesthetic study of literatures in English rediscovering or focusing the elements /situations or characters or incidents that bring out the moral, spiritual or emotional cleansing of the reader resulting into a certain positive change. The equally important second purpose is to appreciate the value of those literary creations that employ this therapeutic modality and to acknowledge and honour their creators for their conscious or unconscious contribution towards the human welfare. For the very purpose, join our venture to dive into the depths of the ocean of Literatures in English to pick up the pearls of humanitarian values of Literature.

THEMES: (Possible topics may include but not restricted to)
Geneological study of the term 'Catharsis' relevant to the literary theorists from Aristotle to Artaud; from classical age to Post-modern age
Interpretation of the term "Urban Catharsis" with references to Dalit Sahitya or Literatures in English
Angst, Virginity, Alienation and Social Psycology in Post-Modern/Colonial writings in English
Diaspora and Urban Catharsis
Psychology, Catharsis and Literature
Catharsis of Family issues in modern fiction
Feminist anger, resistance and Catharsis
Political issues in fiction and Catharsis
Role of modern and post Literatures in English in the betterment of human self through Catharsis
Contribution of Literatures in English in solving social and religious chaos through Cathartic effects.
Catharsis through literary works on cross-culture trauma, migration, life in the diasporas etc
Violence as catharsis?
Indian English Fiction and Catharsis
Significance of fictional Catharsis in the modern world
Humour as Catharsis-- the urban Scenario
Cathartic effect of films based on literary works -- Comparative study of films and their literary adaptations
Representations of anger, madness and death as Catharsis in literature

for rest of the details pls visit this link... http://www.lingayasuniversity.edu.in/NCUC2012/

NCUC 2012

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Workshop on English Grammar...

Dear Sir / Madam,

We fondly cherish the sweet memories of your stay with us during ICEG
2004 in our premises. We do acknowledge your patronage and support in
organizing the Congress with your gracious presence. We, the Bannari
Amman Institute of Technology, Sathyamangalam, Tamil Nadu, India, are
once again organising the International Congress on English Grammar
(ICEG – 2011) during  28-30 December 2011.

On behalf of the organising committee of the ICEG - 2011, we invite
you to contribute towards the success of the Congress by sending a
proposal for paper presentation and or workshop.

A flyer of the congress is attached for your kind perusal. We look
forward to hearing from you at the earliest.

Best Regards

Dr V Thiyagarajan
Professor & Head, Department of English &
Congress Coordinator of ICEG 2011
Bannari Amman Institute of Technology
Sathyamangalam – 638 401 Erode District Tamil Nadu India
Phone: 04295-226310 Mobile: +91-9942997398


Prof V G Chandramohan
Professor, Department of English &
Congress Secretary of ICEG 2011
Bannari Amman Institute of Technology
Sathyamangalam – 638 401 Erode District Tamil Nadu India
Phone: 04295-226310 Mobile: +91-8056830270

University of California needs Assistant Professor of Modernism...

The Department of English at the University of California, Irvine is searching this year for a tenure-track Assistant Professor specializing in Modernism.  I am writing to request your assistance in helping us attract a wide and diverse applicant pool by calling it to the attention of outstanding candidates among your current or recent graduate students or junior colleagues at other institutions.  If you prefer, you may send me directly the names of candidates you would like to nominate.
 
Here is the ad that appears in the MLA Job Information List:
 
The Department of English at the University of California, Irvine invites applications for a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor in Modernism.  Applications must be submitted online at https://recruit.ap.uci.edu/ and should include a cover letter, curriculum vitae, dissertation abstract, writing sample of no more than twenty-five pages, and three letters of recommendation.  Fullest consideration will be given to those who submit their applicationsby November 8, 2011. Interviews of selected candidates will be held at the MLA convention.  Candidate must have a Ph.D. by June 2012.
 
The University of California, Irvine is an equal opportunity employer committed to excellence through diversity and has an Advance Program for faculty equity and diversity.
 
I am enclosing a flyer that you can post for the benefit of interested graduate students.  Many thanks for your time and attention.
 
Best wishes,
 

 
Andrzej Warminski
Acting Chair
Professor of English

CALL FOR RESEARCH PAPERS ON THE FICTION OF AMITAV GHOSH...

CALL FOR RESEARCH PAPERS ON

THE  FICTION OF AMITAV GHOSH

(Dead Line: 30 Nov 2011)

(if you are sending article, you are requested to acknowledge on receipt of this email)

Dear authors and scholars,

I am pleased to inform you that I am going to edit an anthology on the fiction of Amitav Ghosh. Bonafide, scholarly and unpublished research papers are invited from authors and scholars from all over the world.

Proposed Publisher:

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

Thematic Focus of the Volume:

The articles should be related to the all the fictional works  of Amitav Ghosh, preferable his recent novels.

Editing requirements:

• Paper size: A4, Font & size: Times New Roman 12, Spacing: 1.5 lines, Margin of 1 inch on all four sides.
• Title of the paper: bold, Sentence case (Capitalize each word), centered.
• Text of the paper: justified. Font & size: Times New Roman 12.
• References: Please follow MLA style (Only Author-Date or Number System) strictly. Don’t use Foot Notes, Use End Notes
• Articles should be submitted as MS Word attachments only.
• The paper should not usually exceed 12 pages maximum, 8 pages minimum in 1.5 lines spacing.
• Each paper must be accompanied by (i)  A declaration that it is an original work and has not been published anywhere else or sent for publication    (ii) A short bio-note of the contributor(s) indicating name, institutional affiliation, brief career history, postal address, mobile number and e-mail, in a single attachment. Please don’t send more attachments. Give these things below your paper and send all these things in a single attachment.

Mode of Submission:

Each contributor is advised to send full paper with brief bio-note, declaration and abstract as a single MS-Word email attachments to my email addresses: jha.vivekanand7@gmail.com up to 30th Nov 2011.

Selection Procedure:

All submissions will be sent for blind peer reviewing. Final selection will be made only if the papers are recommended for publication by the reviewers. The details of the selection of your paper will be informed to you through email. The editor has the right to make necessary editing of selected papers for the sake of conceptual clarity and formatting. Non-selected papers will not be sent back to the contributor in any form. So, all contributors are advised to keep a copy of their submission with them.

Plagiarism Alert:

Contributors are advised to adhere to strict academic ethics with respect to acknowledgment of original ideas from others. The editors will not be responsible for any such lapse of the contributor. All submissions should be original and must be accompanied by a declaration that it is an original work and has not been published anywhere else. It will be your sole responsibility for such lapses, if any. Neither editor, nor publisher will be responsible for it.

Vivekanand Jha

Poet, Editor, translator and research scholar

L N Mithila University Darbhanga.

India

Mb No. 09996136060

           

Please circulate/forward this invitation among your friends/colleagues.

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MINORITY DISCOURSES ACROSS CULTURES...

CALL FOR PAPERS
CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF RAJASTHAN
in collaboration with
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE ASSOCIATION OF INDIA
Announces an
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
MINORITY DISCOURSES ACROSS CULTURES

Dates : 26th - 29th February, 2012
Venue: Central University of Rajasthan, Bandra Sindri,
Near Kishangarh (Ajmer). It is about 80 km from Jaipur, on the High Way

Thematic Statement :
There are minorities of every kind, religious, racial, economic, gender, and the powerless, not only within a nation but also in the international scenario. Power, at times, converts a sizeable population into a minority, a permanent opponent. Political discourses intervene with personal and emotional ones to shift the balance. Dalits, First nations, tribals, aboriginals, religious minorities such as Anglo-Indians, Parsis, Indian Muslims, and small pockets of diaspora all are political and literary minorities. Third world countries where the political power is controlled by big powers and other similar hegemonic structures lead to the creation of new minorities. The Conference would like to reflect upon the nature of power vis-a–vis the powerless, and explore narrative strategies which articulate minority histories, the politics of sameness and difference and the emergence of indigenous structures of knowledge.

Literary questions which stare us in the face are: How do we define minority discourse? What are its aesthetics? Has it created any new forms, dislocated existing ones, or absorbed native traditions of storytelling? Is it possible to develop new theoretical frameworks? Do we work with border theories or psychological ones of non-belonging, shifting subjectivities or look more closely at narratological inventions? How do we look at minority discourses in/and world literature? Here we need to look at publication, marketing, reading publics, and much more significantly equality. How and in what manner do minority discourses interact with mainstream cultures, theories and issues? There is the need to move outside English language literatures to consider minority literatures. Writers from Indian languages and European languages, especially if the particular work is also available in translation, maybe considered. The medium of presentation however will be English.

The following sub-themes have been identified for the conference (Please put it in a single space) :
* Defining Minority Discourse.
* Mainstream political discourses and literary articulations.
* Minority narratives and narratologies.
* Production of counter/ alternative aesthetics.
* Poetics of space in minority writing.
* Minority writing as a means of political assertion and
* Non-fiction and autobiographical writing and the interface with theory.
(Contd. page 2)
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* Role of cinema\ popular media in creating minority-majority divides.
* Between Sameness and Difference.
* Anthropological and Ritual subtexts.
* Intra-cultural and cross-border comparisons.
* Community/History/Nation in Minority Discourse.
* Orality.

Well considered, analytical and comparative papers are invited on any one of the above sub-themes. There will be a special session on sub-continental writing with a focus on inter-relations as reflected in culture, literature and politics. Presentation time is limited to 20 minutes (2500 words or 8 double spaced typed pages). Abstracts of 250-300 words to reach the Conference Organizers latest by 5th November, 2011 at the address given below. Please remember to include your affiliation details, phone number and email ids. Acceptances will be conveyed by 15th November 2011.

The conference will be organized at the permanent site of the University Campus
Central University of Rajasthan, Bandra Sindri, Near Kishangarh, Ajmer (Raj.)

Registration fee for outstation participants: Rs. 1, 500. Local participants: Rs. 1, 000
and foreign participants: US $ 200. Stay and hospitality during the conference days will be provided to the invited participants.

For further information and queries, you are welcome to contact:

Prof. Chandra Mohan, Dr. Supriya Agarwal
General Secretary, Conference Convener,
Comparative Literature Association of India, 2A- Indira Nagar
C-93 (GF), Inderpuri, New Delhi-110012, Tonk Road
Tel. No. 09810683143 (mobile) Jaipur, Rajasthan
Email:c.mohan.7@hotmail.com Tel. No. 09829216363
Email: agarwalsupriya13@gmail.com
englishdepartment.curaj@gmail.com
Co-Convener
Dr. Avinash Jodha , Tel No. 09414358853.
Email: avinashjodha@hotmail.com
Organizing Committee
Dr. Bhumika Sharma
Tel. No. : 09166245919
Mr. Abhigyan Diwedi
Tel. No. : 08058982054

National Young Researchers’ Seminar...

CALL FOR PAPERS:

National Young Researchers’ Seminar

on

“Travelling Genres: English in India, India in English”

UGC Special Assistance Programme (DRS Phase II)

Centre for English Studies

School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies

Jawaharlal Nehru University

New Delhi – 110067, India

January 11-13th, 2012

sap.ces@gmail.com

English in India may be viewed today as a mode of formulating a transitional space, creating a bridge between cultures, spaces and genres that are in constant flux themselves.  For years, the touchstones of English in India came under a common umbrella, but increasing diversification has led to a veritable explosion of genres. Also, the simultaneous usage of English itself for assertion and repression across the subcontinent makes for the creation of a variegated space of conflict and also, possibilities for resolution. The relationship between the Indian cultural sub space and the development of English dominance, first as a colonial imperative and then as a shifting adaptive post-prescriptive dialogue, has been a complex and fraught one, which has seen constant change, never more than over the last decade, when Indian academic analysis of its role has become increasingly mainstream. This seminar invites papers that seek to examine the growing interest in, and nexus of, interdisciplinary cultural studies in India that try to negotiate the strands of the evolving dynamics in literary, cinematic, performative and new media areas (to name just a few) that have been highlighted in recent research on popular culture, technoculture, identity formation/negotiation, (re)visions of the canon etc.

The Centre for English Studies, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, JNU is pleased to invite papers for a seminar focussing on new research in these and associated fields. The seminar will be conducted on a panel-respondent model, where we hope to invite experts on the various focus areas to critique the research papers presented. Papers of about 3000 words will be submitted in advance so that the concerned respondent will be able to formulate their critique so that the exchange of ideas in this area can be maximized. Given the format of the seminar, we are looking to engage with participants with research experience so that discussion may be taken to the next level, critically and creatively. The proceedings of the seminar will also be published.

Abstracts must be submitted by 1^st November to sap.ces@gmail.com to be considered. The deadline for full papers is the 30^thNovember, 2011. Papers can be structured around any of the following focus areas or intersections thereof:

·         Indian Writing in English: Emerging Genres

·         The Canon : Resurrections/Insurrections

·         Identity Formation/Negotiation: National/Subnational Assertions etc

·         Alternate/Minority/Dalit/Tribal: Spaces/Voices/Discourses

·         Gender (re)visions/Queer-ies

·         Histories

·         Performance Studies

·         Popular Culture Studies

·         New Media : But what’s the Matter?

·         Genres in Travel: Strange new Worlds 

You Can Publish Your Paper Here...

Dear All,

please send in your papers for the following anthologies with ISBN no.

 

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Thanking You,

 

 

 

 

 

CALL FOR RESEARCH PAPERS ON FOLLOWING ANTHOLOGIES

1. Indian Drama in English: A Feminine Perspective

2. The Fictional World of Amitav Ghosh

3. The Changing Face of Diaspora in Commonwealth Literature

                                                

Editors

Dr. Arvind Nawale

Dr. Nibedita Mukherjee

No Contribution/Subscription fees. Papers will be accepted and published free of cost and only on basis of quality and each contributor will get a free complimentary copy from publisher

Dear All,

We are glad to inform you that we are going to edit jointly following three anthologies of research papers tentatively titled as per following details. Authentic, scholarly and unpublished research papers are invited from scholars/faculty/researchers/writers/professors from all over the world for this volume.

1.      Indian Drama in English: A Feminine Perspective

Women have been assigned diversified roles in Indian society – on one aspect she is the Adishakti, the source of all power, and on the other hand she is the virtual doormat, lying prostrate at the feet of her “patidevta”( hudband-god) and performing the “stridharma”(the duties of a wife) which led to ultimate self-effacement. This complex role of women in Indian society _ both the “Grihalakshmi” and the coquette have been depicted with clarity in Indian Drama in English. This section of the dramatic genre began in 1837 with Krishna Mohan Banerjee’s The Persecuted and since then with stalwarts like Michael Madhusudhan Dutt and Rabindranath Tagore, it achieved a height of its own. They were followed by creative souls like Manjiri Isvaran, G.V.Desani, Lakhan Dev, Pretish Nandy, Asif currimbhoy, Girish Karnard, Vijay Tendulkar, Badal Sirkar, Mahesh Dattani etc. who have all contributed profoundly to the enrichment of this literary genre.

The aim of the present anthology is to present papers which study the cause of the “feminine”, i.e. both the female position and psychological situation as depicted in the varied plays. Papers may also considered on plays which have been written in Indian languages but were later translated into English.

2.      The Fictional World of Amitav Ghosh

An anthropologist trained in India, Alexandria and Oxford, Amitav Ghosh entered the fictional world with an intention of glancing backwards. His primary concern is the Diaspora and related themes such as emigration, exile, cultural displacement and transnational cultural flow. However, unlike Salman Rushdie, “nation” is not the only theme of Ghosh’s fictional world. Rather he is concerned with the family in its various aspects (both the extended “joint family” and the segregated “nuclear family”) as the “central imaginative unit”. For this purpose Ghosh employs variety of narrative techniques, genres and storytelling styles to invent a “neverland” which again coheres to reality.

With Amitav Ghosh the boundary between literary study and political praxis dissolves and his fiction becomes “one signifying system” which dissolves the borders of narrative aesthetics and effects radical transformation of reality. The present anthology calls for papers which study the fiction of Amitav Ghosh from this varied aspects and highlight the thematic condition and character situation therein.

3.      The Changing Face of Diaspora in Commonwealth Literature

The Commonwealth literature shares in general an awareness of the British presence that look back at the colonial past with hatred and a sense of acute marginalization and this post colonial “re-membering” binds together the vast body of diversified literary production generated by these fifty-four member states of the Commonwealth of Nations. A current theme of these commonwealth narratives is the varied interpretations of the concept of “Diaspora”. It is a concept which originated in mythical age with the scattering of the Jews and has now obtained a new socio-political significance. Initially “Diaspora” implied forceful evacuation from the mother-state and a lack of assimilation in the foreign soil. So the diasporic individuals looked back with painful nostalgia towards “home” and failed to merge into the mainstream culture of their present habitation. This sense of marginalisation is well observed in the novels of Anita Desai, G.V.Desani, Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, J.G.Farell, Wole Soyinka and so on. But in the wake of globalization, the situation underwent a massive shift. Novels by the second wave diasporic writers such as Arundhuti Roy, Bharti Mukherjee, Kiran Desai etc. highlight this changing scenario. The present anthology desires to present the concept of the diaspora from its varied angles and calls for papers related to this issue in Commonwealth literature.

Proposed Publisher:

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

Editing requirements:

• Paper size: A4, Font & size: Times New Roman 12, Spacing: Single line, Margin of 1 inch on all four sides.
• Title of the paper: bold, title case (Capitalize each word), centered.
• Text of the paper: justified. Font & size: Times New Roman 12.
• References: Please follow MLA style (Only Author-Date or Number System) strictly. Don’t use Foot Notes. Instead use End Notes.
• Titles of books: Italics.
• Titles of articles from journals and books: “quoted”.
• Articles should be submitted as MS Word 2003-2007attachments only.
• The paper should not usually exceed 14 pages maximum, 5 pages minimum in single spacing.
• Each paper must be accompanied by i)  A declaration that it is an original work and has not been published anywhere else or send for publication  ii) Abstract of paper about 100-200 words and iii) A short bio-note of the contributor(s) indicating name, institutional affiliation, brief career history, postal address, mobile number and e-mail, in a single attachment. Please don’t send more attachments. Give these things below your paper and send all these things in a separate single MS-Word attachment.
• The papers submitted should evince serious academic work contributing new knowledge or innovative critical perspectives on the subject explored.

Mode of Submission:

Each contributor is advised to send full paper with brief bio-note, declaration and abstract as a single MS-Word email attachments to email addresses: nibedita.english@gmail.com  up to 29^th Nov. 2011.

Selection Procedure:

All submissions will be sent for blind peer reviewing. Final selection will be made only if the papers are recommended for publication by the reviewers. The details of the selection of your paper will be informed to you telephonically or on your email. The editor has the right to make necessary editing of selected papers for the sake of conceptual clarity and formatting. Non-selected papers will not be sent back to the contributor in any form. So, all contributors are advised to keep a copy of their submission with them. Each contributor will get a free complimentary copy from publisher but in case of joint paper, only first writer will get free copy.

Plagiarism Alert:

Contributors are advised to adhere to strict academic ethics with respect to acknowledgment of original ideas from others. The editors will not be responsible for any such lapse of the contributor. All submissions should be original and must be accompanied by a declaration that it is an original work and has not been published anywhere else. It will be your sole responsibility for such lapses, if any. Neither editor, nor publisher will be responsible for it.

Last date for submission: 29^th Nov. 2011.

Thanks.

Dr. Nibedita Mukherjee

(Faculty, Dept of English, Bankura Christian College, Bankura (W.B) -722101

Cell No. 09434335848

E-Mail: nibedita.english@gmail.com

Dr. Arvind Nawale

(Head, Dept of English, Shivaji College, Udgir (M.S.) -413 517

Cell No. 07588390675, 09011155955

Web: http://arvindnawale.blogspot.com/

Please circulate/forward this invitation among your friends/colleagues

Dr. Nibedita Mukherjee

BANKURA CHRISTIAN COLLEGE
PO=DIST: BANKURA-722101

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