This is a revised call for papers for the
American Comp. Lit. Assoc. Meeting in San Juan,
Puerto Rico, April 11-14, 2002. Please pass onto
anyone you think might be interested.
_(E)Racing India: National Pasts, Diasporic
Futures_
"The word ‘translation’ comes, etymologically,
from the Latin for ‘bearing across’. Having
been borne across the world, we are translated
men. It is normally supposed that something
always gets
lost in translation; I cling, obstinately, to the
notion that something can also be gained."
Salman Rushdie
_Imaginary Homelands_
This seminar is interested in proposals that
address issues of cultural translations and
diasporic identities as they come into contact
with national affiliations as "Indian" throughout
the Caribbean. We especially invite papers that
look specifically at the role of popular culture
in disseminating these various forms of
identification. Further, we seek papers that
examine how cultural and social markers such as
race, gender, sexuality, and class get redefined
when historicized through the lens of Caribbean
popular cultural forms that are forged out of
specific cultural collisions and collusions.
Examples include, but are not limited to:
*religious identities/practices
* Chutney soca, gender, and sexuality
* linguistic creolizations amongst
Indo-Caribbean communities
* defining hybridity in the Caribbean
* V.S. Naipaul and Indian nationalism
* the reception of Bollywood films in the
Caribbean
* Sexuality and Indian women laborers
* Migrations of Indo-Caribbeans
Please send abstracts and proposals by October
1, 2001 to Priya Jha (email: pjha26@yahoo.com)
and to Monika Mehta (meht0003@tc.umn.edu).
Please cc: Kathleen Komar at Komar@ucla.edu.
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Priya Jha
110 Sherman Avenue
Glen Ridge, NJ 07028
973.429.0838
http://spot.colorado.edu/~jha
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