Call For Papers MLA 2004
Hybridity's Children: The new generation of South Asian writers
If the major writers of the "postcolonial" generation of the 1970s and 80s
were preoccupied with topics such as the emergence of independent
nation-states in South Asia and the status of English, the current
generation seems to have provisionally moved on to engage a new slate of
interests. Some writers are interested in narrativizing sub-national regions
within South Asia (such as David Davidar or Arundhati Roy's South India);
some write in local languages; other writers, many of them situated or even
born abroad, have focused on questions of globalization and diasporization
("World Bank Literature"). Finally, several writers with no personal
connection to South Asia have written some insightful "South Asian
literature" - Zadie Smith and Yann Martel being two prominent examples. To
what extent is the new generation in fact different from earlier
generations? Are the differences between writers (for instance, diasporic
vs. internal) so great that the category of "South Asian" should be
rethought? And finally, how might these kinds of questions impact university
pedagogy (syllabuses, courses, major requirements), as well as the
international publishing industry?
Please send abstracts or completed papers (email only) by March 20 to:
Amardeep Singh (amsp@lehigh.edu)
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