Deadline: 1 December 2012
This anthology of critical essays will cover the English-language poetry of South Asians both in the subcontinent as well as in the globally distributed locations of the South Asian diaspora from the early nineteenth century to the second decade of the 21st century. The essays may cover literary movements, poetic manifestoes, genres of poetry, style and language in South Asian poetry in English, the contributions of individual poets, comparative studies of poets and their poems, transnational poetics, poets and poetry from specific countries/regions, the influences of South Asian vernacular literary traditions, and other related topics. (There is an interested academic publisher in the United States.)
THE ANTHOLOGY IS EXPECTED TO COVER THE FOLLOWING AREAS:
Dr. Mitali P. Wong
Professor of English
Department of English and Foreign Languages
Claflin University
Orangeburg, SC 29115
wong@claflin.edu
803-535-5221
Dr. Waqas Khwaja
Professor of English
Agnes Scott College
Decatur, GA 30030
wkhwaja@agnesscott.edu
404-471-5056
Please email the editors if you have questions about specific topics and/or poets to be covered.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
For queries/ submissions: wong@claflin.edu or wkhwaja@agnesscott.edu
This anthology of critical essays will cover the English-language poetry of South Asians both in the subcontinent as well as in the globally distributed locations of the South Asian diaspora from the early nineteenth century to the second decade of the 21st century. The essays may cover literary movements, poetic manifestoes, genres of poetry, style and language in South Asian poetry in English, the contributions of individual poets, comparative studies of poets and their poems, transnational poetics, poets and poetry from specific countries/regions, the influences of South Asian vernacular literary traditions, and other related topics. (There is an interested academic publisher in the United States.)
THE ANTHOLOGY IS EXPECTED TO COVER THE FOLLOWING AREAS:
- The beginnings of English-language poetry in 19th century India
- The poetry of the colonial period
- Postcolonial poetry in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh,Nepal
- The poetry of the South Asian diaspora in the U.K., U.S.A., Canada, the Caribbean, Africa, Southeast Asia, Australia, and Fiji
- Deadline for abstracts: December 1, 2012 (The editors will provide details of length and formatting for accepted papers.)
- Deadline for final drafts of essays: July 15, 2013
Dr. Mitali P. Wong
Professor of English
Department of English and Foreign Languages
Claflin University
Orangeburg, SC 29115
wong@claflin.edu
803-535-5221
Dr. Waqas Khwaja
Professor of English
Agnes Scott College
Decatur, GA 30030
wkhwaja@agnesscott.edu
404-471-5056
Please email the editors if you have questions about specific topics and/or poets to be covered.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
For queries/ submissions: wong@claflin.edu or wkhwaja@agnesscott.edu
