CONCEPT NOTE

Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU)

School of Humanities

New Delhi

International Conference

Literature and Marginality : Comparative Perspectives in African American Australian and Indian Dalit Literature

February, 20-22, 2013

CONCEPT NOTE

‘Marginality’ is generally employed to interpret and analyse socio-cultural, political and economic spheres, where disadvantaged people struggle to gain access to resources, and equal participation in social life. The superstructures of race in Africa, Australia, USA and caste in India inform, deform, and complicate the identities of the marginalized along lines of gender, class, and family structure. In the modern day debate, various facets of marginality have been discussed in scholarly circles in almost every disciplinary area including literature, history, sociology, and political science with implications for issues as diverse as justice, gender, equality and inequality. This academic exercise which engage experts from National and International arena will explore the convergences in imagination and expressions of writers like Ngugi and Achebe, Kim Scott and Alexis Wright and then Valmiki and Gaikwad.

Over the years, the traditional assumptions of disciplines have been challenged and scholars have also explored the role of the “canon” and debated on what the so called “great” (canonical) texts may be in their respective disciplines, and the more profound grounds of their canonicity. There is a great academic need to explore these comparative perspectives in African American and Australian, Indian Dalit Literature. The advent of literary and cultural theories in the literary field has brought major changes in the way of reading, interpreting and understanding literature and culture. This has empowered, in a significant way, marginalized discourses which often remained unnoticed by the hegemonic culture. This has constantly been argued that a comprehensive literary study of marginality and its epistemic role is necessary and would contribute to a better understanding of how humanistic knowledge has been created, structured and transmitted.

The proposed bilingual (Hindi and English) conference is to contextualize marginality in an Inter-disciplinary framework with reference to past and with its possible effects on life in future and also provide a comparative platform of literary study between Dalit, African, Australian and American discourses. Although the chief concern will be to review literature on marginality and figure out the points of coming together and departure in terms of marginalized writings yet scholarly contributions from every domain are also invited so that the inter-disciplinary or multi-disciplinary approaches can authenticate the main theme. The innovative, exciting, and intellectual discussion by the scholars of all domains will also help in promoting a high order research in this area.

The broad areas to be covered by the Seminar include: 

• Subaltern Consciousness in African Australian American and Dalit Writings.
• Parallelism and Ambivalences  in literature of the ‘margins’
• ‘Art’ and ‘Aesthetics’ of African Australian American and Dalit Writings
• Literature of Marginality:  African American Australian and Dalit Literature.
• Art, literature and films as modes of expression and Resistance
• Issues of  language, form and genre
• Nation and its Others
• Autobiographies as layers of Identity and Resistance.
• Representation of women, caste and Race.
• Dynamics of Social exclusion - Issues, Trends and Prospects
• The Subaltern Consciousness and the associated challenges
• Politics of Empowerment and Subaltern issues.

Any other topic(s) relevant to the theme of the Conference is/are welcomed.

Conference Methodology

The conference format would be a mix of thematic and plenary sessions, panel discussion and presentation of papers. If needed, parallel session may be organised for presentation of papers. In the end, recommendations of the conference will be deliberated and drafted.

Important Dates:

Submission of Abstracts: 25 January, 2013

Submission of completed papers:  05 February, 2013

Chief Patron

Prof. Gopi Nath Pradhan

Vice Chancellor

Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU)  

Conveners:

Prof. Vimal Thorat (HINDI) & Dr Parmod Mehra (English), Indira Gandhi National Open University.

           

Best Paper Awards 

The Conveners will select a paper from each Technical Session which will be given Best Paper Award.

 Contact Details:

Prof Vimal Thorat (Hindi)                                         Dr Parmod Mehra (English)

School of Humanities, Block-F, Tagore Bhawan, IGNOU, New Delhi-110068

Email:
iclm2013@ignou.ac.in 

parmod.mehra@gmail.com 

Blog : http://lnternationalconference.blogspot.in/
Mobile: +91-9818209985,  +91-1129534289

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तीन दिवसीय अन्तर्राष्ट्रीय सम्मेलन

20-22 फरवरी, 2013

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Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU)

School of Humanities

New Delhi

International Conference

Literature and Marginality: Comparative Perspectives in African American Australian and Indian Dalit Literature

February, 20-22, 2013

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Notes/Footnotes: Footnotes All footnotes should be indicated by serial numbers in the text and literature cited should be detailed under ‘Notes’ at the end of the chapter bearing corresponding numbers

References:

References  Place the references at the end of the manuscript following the footnotes. The list should mention only those sources actually cited in the text or notes. Authors name should be same as in the original source. For more than one publication  by the same author, list them in chronological order, with the older item first. For more than one publication in one year by the same author, use small lower case letters to distinguish them (e.g. 1980a, 1980b). Following are some examples:

Books - Chakraborty, S.K. (1987), title of the book : Indian Insights,  New Delhi, Tata

McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. Ltd.

Ph.D. Thesis - Singh, P Kumar (1995), Domestication and Insurrection of Dalit Voices,  Ph.D.

thesis, University of Delhi, Delhi.

Website - Complete Address, i.e., URL, along with date of accessing the website. www.shtr.org/dbr.html, July 2002

Full Papers should be typed in double space, font Times New Roman, Size12  throughout (including notes and references).Sub-titles should be short as far as possible. Notes should be numbered consecutively and attached at the end of the article. Spellings may follow the British pattern as in the Oxford English Dictionary. Quotations may  be placed in double quotation marks, reserving single quotation for quotes within quotes. Long quotes (45 words or more) should be indented to set them apart from the text. No quotation marks are required around indented quotes. Italics can be used for titles of books, newspapers, journals as well as for foreign words which are not commonly in use. Abbreviations should include a final stop in words shortened by omitting the end.

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Last Date of Submission : 05 February, 2013