Centre for Comparative Literature
School of Humanities, University of Hyderabad
A National Conference
on
"Epic in India: Exploring Variations, Transformations and Mutations"
24 to 26 August 2016
Across cultures, Epic has been celebrated as one of the grand genres. The Epic, either in oral or in written forms exists as a chronicle of a larger society. Epic in India represents the Indian cultural past, replete with various interpolations and interpretations through time. Indian epics are transmuted through centuries and are read not as single texts but different and varied texts in different times, places and contexts. Epic written in India/Indian Subcontinent has invigorated dynamic literary traditions while its narrative form remains the carrier of collective memory of the land and its people, traditions of storytelling, and contains varied forms that are re-enacted in marvelous and multifarious ways. Epic in India has resurrected and offered re-interpretations of the past, forging new identities and creating new histories. It has moved in many directions and undergone several processes of re-creation at ethnic, regional, national and global levels.
This conference seeks to explore the broader canvas of the Epic that has transformed into contemporary social and political narratives. The issues to be addressed in the conference are: reception of Indian epics at home and in the world; the ways different epic traditions have intermingled; what role epic has played in the formation of other genres instituted as they are by multiple and discursive influences and contingencies of reception, its other mutations. The conference will have a special focus on the rewriting of epics through translation and their metamorphosis through folktales. Further, it also seeks to explore how epic can be read in the context of identities and various kinds of struggles in our times.
Abstracts are invited, but not limited to, the following sub themes:
* Epic as a Genre
* Epic Traditions in India
* Multi-genres within Epics
* Epic Structures, Narratives, Styles
* Epic, Poetic Traditions and Orality
* Regional Interpretations of Epics
* Epics in Translations and Adaptations
* Epics in Performance
* Epics and Contingencies of Reception
* Epic and Its Interpolations
* Epic and Folklore, Tribal Epics and Versions
* Epic, Story, Myth, History
* Influences, Counter Influences, Linkages
* Epic as Metaphor in Socio-political Dialogue
* Epic in the Age of New Media
Last Date for Submission of Abstracts : 15 June 2016
Intimation of Selection : 30 June 2016
Submission of Full Papers : 31 July 2016
Conference Coordinator:
Prof. Tutun Mukherjee, Professor & Head, Centre for Comparative Literature, School of Humanities, University of Hyderabad, India. Email: tutunmukherjee@uohyd.ac.in
Abstracts of around 250-300 words in Microsoft Word (.doc/.docx) format should be emailed to Abu Saleh (abusaleh@uohyd.ac.in OR abusalehenglish@gmail.com)
Please write your full name, institution details, contact information in the body of the mail (Not in the Abstract Word Page).
Abstracts will be screened through blind peer review process. Selected authors will be intimated accordingly. Once selected, participants are supposed to submit full papers by the given dates.
The conference will take care of food and accommodation (shared) for outstation participants during the conference days. Accommodation is strictly for the participants and not for accompanying person(s).
Participants are supposed to manage their travel and other expenses.
For any clarifications, please feel free to contact:
CCL Office: 040-2313-3350
OR
Abu Saleh: 09494242645
Mobile: +91 94 94 24 26 45
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