From: 08-01-2015 Till: 10-01-2015
Duration: 3 days
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INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON DYNAMICS OF DISCORD IN INDIAN DIASPORIC WRITING
In transnational, multilingual, and pluralistic societies, it is but natural that there would arise discords at various levels, such as social, cultural, psychological, etc. Migrations of individuals and groups of individuals from India have been going on since ancient times for both economic and political reasons. The phenomenon became prominent during the years of the British Empire. After the empire ended, attractions of better life in the more developed countries of the West have also resulted in large-scale migrations, especially to England, America, Canada and Australia.
After having consolidated their positions as migrant populations, the various groups of Indians in these countries have emerged as diasporic communities, producing eminent people in various fields, including arts and literature. The diasporic poets, novelists, dramatists, essayists in these various countries of the west have written both in English as well as in the language of one's native origin, such as Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Gujrati etc. Over the years this literature has grown into volumes and has gained high status in the body of Indian writing in English and other native languages. It will therefore be rewarding if through an international seminar a stock-taking exercise is done in which various scholars known for their work in this area address different issues related to the inevitable discords captured in the diasporic writing by the Indian writers living here as well as abroad.
Following are the Sub-Themes:-
- Multicultural settings in Indian-American / Indian-Canadian / Indian-English Writing, etc.
- Multilingual-society in Indian-American/Indian-African/Writing etc.
- 'Imaginary Hameland' in an Individual or more than are Indian diasporic writer.
- The role of the 'other' in one or more Indian diasporic writer.
- Narrating Indian from Distant Abodes - any individual or group of writers or texts.
- Narrating diasporic life as seen from Indian Abode -any individual or group of writers or texts.
- Significance of 'Home' in any Diasporic Writer or a group of writers or texts.
- Role of 'Recall' or 'Memory' in any individual or more than one diasporic writer or text.
- Forms of discord in any particular or group of writers.
- Nature of Discord Resolution in any particular text or a set of texts.
- Research papers are invited on the above mentioned themes
- Last Date for submission of Abstract - November 20, 2014 (Maximum Word Limit - 300)
- Last Date of submission of Full Paper - November 30, 2014
| Type | Amount |
|---|---|
| Registration Fees | Rs. 2100.00 |
| Registrationi Fees(Shakespear Assiciation Member) | Rs. 1800.00 |
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