Deadline: 31 October 2012
The world today is witnessing cataclysmic changes like never before which have impacted postcoloniality in an unprecedented fashion. This has resulted in a colossal increase in the corpus of writing related to the discipline of postcolonial studies which has led to a radical shift in the understanding and conceptualization of postcolonial issues. Notions such as Cosmopolitanism, Transnationalism, and Globalization – the newest attributes of postcoloniality – neither obliterate the specificities of the “postcolonial” nor undermine the challenges they pose to postcoloniality. Instead, their interface throws open newer vistas of postcoloniality which seek to promise a “new world order” with diverse possibilities.
National Seminar on Postcoloniality in Transition:
Cosmopolitanism, Transnationalism, and Globalisation
16-17 January 2013
The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad
Department of Commonwealth Literary Studies
The present conference aims to discuss and deliberate on the global interconnectedness and the transnational features of postcolonial texts that transcend the Master’s historical narrative and the distortions and disfigurements of the imperial past. In the light of this proposition, the possible topics of papers for submission could include, but are not limited to:
IMPORTANT DATES:
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
For queries: clseflu2013@gmail.com
For submissions: clsseminar.eflu@gmail.com
Website: http://www.efluniversity.ac.in/
The world today is witnessing cataclysmic changes like never before which have impacted postcoloniality in an unprecedented fashion. This has resulted in a colossal increase in the corpus of writing related to the discipline of postcolonial studies which has led to a radical shift in the understanding and conceptualization of postcolonial issues. Notions such as Cosmopolitanism, Transnationalism, and Globalization – the newest attributes of postcoloniality – neither obliterate the specificities of the “postcolonial” nor undermine the challenges they pose to postcoloniality. Instead, their interface throws open newer vistas of postcoloniality which seek to promise a “new world order” with diverse possibilities.
National Seminar on Postcoloniality in Transition:
Cosmopolitanism, Transnationalism, and Globalisation
16-17 January 2013
The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad
Department of Commonwealth Literary Studies
The present conference aims to discuss and deliberate on the global interconnectedness and the transnational features of postcolonial texts that transcend the Master’s historical narrative and the distortions and disfigurements of the imperial past. In the light of this proposition, the possible topics of papers for submission could include, but are not limited to:
- Nationalism, Transnationalism and Globalisation
- Hybridity, Liminality, and Creolization of Culture
- AlterNative Cultural Identity and Ethnicity
- Aboriginality, Subalternity and Representation
- Neo-Imperialism
- Myths, Nativism and Multiculturalism
- Multi-historicalism and Indigenism
- Postcolonial Space/s and Cosmopolitanism
IMPORTANT DATES:
- Deadline for submission of abstracts: 31 October 2012
- Notification of Acceptance: 15 November 2012
- Deadline for Registration: 5 December 2012
- Full paper: 25 December 2012
- Faculty Members Rs 3000/-
- Research Participants (Out-station) Rs 1500/-
- Local Participants Rs 1000/-
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
- Prof. T Nageswara Rao
- Dean, School of English Literary Studies
- Prof. N Rama Devi
- Head, Department of Commonwealth Literary Studies
- Asst. Prof. Dr Chinnadevi Singadi
- Asst. Prof. Mr. V Raju Nayak
- Asst. Prof. Mr. Jai Singh
For queries: clseflu2013@gmail.com
For submissions: clsseminar.eflu@gmail.com
Website: http://www.efluniversity.ac.in/
