CALL FOR PAPERS
South Asian Liiterary Association (SALA) Third Annual Meeting, New York City,
December 26-27, 2002
"The South Asian Imagination: Versions and Subversions"
Deadline for abstracts has been extended to Oct 10, 2002 4pm EST.
We invite you to submit proposals for individual papers, panels, or
roundtable discussion sessions for the Third Annual Meeting of the
South Asian Literary Association (SALA), an allied organization of the
MLA. The meeting, which will be held concurrently with the MLA Annual
Convention in New York City, will take place at a hotel very near the
MLA convention hotels in order to facilitate your attendance at both
conferences.
We welcome proposals on the work of writers of South Asian backgrounds
from all over the globe, at home and abroad, as they face the new realities
of globalization, race, nationalism, gender and sexuality, ethnicity,
caste, and class, among other variables. We especially welcome proposals,
both
intra-and inter-disciplinary, on the following topics:
* Borders and Boundaries: nationalisms, cosmopolitanisms, inter-South
Asian relations, globalities, ethnicities, diasporic crossings, and
liminalities
* Secularism, spirituality, religion, and fundamentalism
* Politics and ethics, war and peace
* Conjunctures, disjunctures, and differences; insiders and outsiders
* Cultural identity and representation
* Colonial and postcolonial discourse; colonial and postcolonial
representations of India
* Technology and the new millennium
* Literature and popular/consumer culture, the visual and plastic arts,
cinema, music, transitional and translational genres
* South Asian literary traditions
* Indian and Western epic and dramatic traditions
* South Asian writing in English and in indigenous languages;
vernacularization of English: Mulk Raj Anand, Raja Rao, R.K. Narayan,
Salman
Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, and others
* Theory, practice, pedagogy
* V. S. Naipaul as novelist and cultural critic
Please submit 300-500 word proposals (either via postal service or in
the body of an email message) to the conference co-chairs and the Secretary/
Treasurer.
Interested participants are encouraged to join SALA, an allied organization
of the MLA. SALA also publishes the peer reviewed journal South Asian Review.
Selected abstracts from the conference will be published in SAR. All
inquiries about SALA membership should be directed to the Secretary
Treasurer.
Cynthia Leenerts
Department of English
Rome 760
George Washington University
Washington, DC 20052
<caleen@gwu.edu>
and
Harveen Mann
Department of English
Loyola University Chicago
6525 N. Sheridan Road
Chicago, IL 60626
<hmann@luc.edu>
and
Lopamudra Basu
Secretary/ Treasurer, SALA.
<lopabasu@aol.com>
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