- Interrogating categorial binaries (tradition/modernity, nature/culture, regional/national,
- east/west etc.)/ Literature after theory/ Shifting paradigms between Literary Studies and Social Sciences/ The Post-human as a paradigm in literary studies.
- Worlding literature / Historicising canons/ Global and local as contexts of reading. The idea of the classic in modernity: circulation or creativity ?
- Translation and the encounter with difference. Translating “dialects”/ The oral texts/ Archaic texts.
- The plural nation: stratification and resistance/ Literary historiography and geopolitics/ Intertextuality and chronotopes.
- Polyphony/ Polysemy in literature/ Poetry and cosmopolitanism.
- Interrogating “Minor” literature as category/ Identity theories as critiques of the Humanities / Life-writing from the margins.
- The performativity of literature/ Screenplay as literature/ Intermediality in literature. South Asian literatures and cultures: relations, reciprocity and ruptures/ Population movements and literature.
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Monday, January 29, 2024
CFA: XVII Biennial International Conference on Comparative Literature as Alternative Humanities Ethics, Affect and the Everyday Social organized by Comparative Literature Association of India and University of Delhi-10th-12th September, 2024
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
Call for Papers on #South #Asian #Crime #Fiction since the 1950s -#FilmStudies #Cinema #Regionalcinema, #Vernacular -June 2024
Crime Fiction has been one of the popular genres for the South Asian reading public since colonial times. The simultaneous emergence of murder mysteries, detective fiction, thrillers in the metropolis as well as the colonies has been richly documented by the brilliant work done in Urdu, Hindi and Bangla by Naim (2023), Brueck and Orsini (2022), Roy (2020, 2017), Oesterheld (2009), Daeschel (2003) and others. Moving beyond arguments of imitative models into debates on the postcolonial in crime fiction, world crime fiction, gender in twentieth century crime writings, espionage narratives during the Cold War and more, this edited volume proposes to launch into broader yet interconnected themes of crime fiction in the regional languages and cartographies in South Asia. We broadly define the region as that of India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The proposed volume will shift the focus away from anglocentric studies of crime fiction to explore the production, reception, and scholarship of crime fiction in the indigenous languages of South Asia since the 1950s. We seek chapters that address the following themes but are not necessarily restricted to them:
- Vernacular crime fiction in the shadow of the Cold War
- Crime fiction published in the early days of the young nations of India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka
- Women as actors, writers, and publishers in South Asian crime fiction
- Configurations of gender: women criminals, vamps, molls, and women detectives
- Urban crime or the city as the centre of crime and detection. How does the character of a metropolis interact with the mechanics of crime fiction?
- Migration and crime fiction in the late twentieth century
- Film and crime fiction (our primary interest is fiction)
- Translations, adaptations, and imitations
- Vernacular print cultures such as magazines and newspapers and crime fiction
- Readership and vernacular crime fiction
- Pulp fiction/Lowbrow fiction and crime fiction in regional languages
- Gothic and crime fiction in South Asia
Please send your abstracts (500 words) and a short bio-note (50 words) by March 15th to southasiancriminality@gmail.com. We will get back to you with our responses promptly by 1st April. If selected, full chapters (4,000 - 6,000 words) are to be submitted no later than 30th June, 2024. In case of any query do not hesitate to contact us on the email address provided.
Shweta Sachdeva Jha (Associate Professor, Department of English, Miranda House, University of Delhi),
Garima Yadav (Assistant Professor, Department of English, Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, University of Delhi)
Friday, November 3, 2023
Call for Papers: #Folklore and Popular Culture Area -March 2024
- Folklore in Popular Culture/Folklore as Popular Culture
- Folklore and digital media
- Influence of folklore on other forms of culture (literature, film, music, etc.)
- Folklore and Religion
- Folklore and Material Culture
- The difference between oral and literary sources of tradition
- Folklore and Gender
- Folklore and children
- Uses of folklore
- Folklore and Globalism/Regionalism/Localism
- Illustrators/Illustrations of and in folklore
- Folklore and memory/memory studies
- Symbolism in folklore
- The relationship between folklore and fairy tale studies/literary studies/anthropology