The
Department of English
Govt.
Arts and Science College
Kozhikode
Invites
you for a
Three-Day
National Seminar
on
‘Traversing
Boundaries: Readings on Transnational Narratives’
9
to 11 January 2018
Over the last few
decades there has been a surge of interdisciplinary interest in the
investigation of social transformations. In recent years, a significant body of
interdisciplinary literature has recognized transnationalism as an important
macro phenomenon emerging in relation to the de-territorialisation of cultural,
social and economic practices, which are moving away from nationally rooted
apparatuses. The term transnationalism has been used not only in social
anthropology to account for new forms of social interaction resulting from
intensified cross-border mobility (whether related to diaspora or triggered by
economic factors) but also in political theory with regard to practices of
non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to highlight the fact that at least one
of the actors involved is a non-state entity.
Transnationalism has
thus conceptually emerged as a range of complex social phenomena which
interface discursively with powerful narratives of cultural ‘inbetweeness’,
territorial ‘unboundedness’, and post-national politics.
Transnational
narratives aim at constructing literatures emerging through supplementing and
challenging the existing models of literature based on fixed notions of space and
time. The objective of transnational literature is to complicate the idea of
place and location as fixed, making it cross cultural which in effect creates
spatial and temporal understanding as fluid and ambiguous. Transnational
narratives mainly focus on New Literatures. It has given a novel shape to
literary and cultural studies since the last few decades.
The Department of
English, Govt. Arts and Science College, Kozhikode proposes to conduct a
Three-Day National Seminar on ‘Traversing Boundaries: Readings on Transnational
Narratives’ from 9th to 11th January 2018.
Keeping in view of the
topic of the seminar the following areas could be included or considered for
academic paper presentations:
Narratives on,
Cultural flows and
Migrations
Diaspora
Deconstructing
Nationalism across the globe
Fourth World
narratives/ Indigenous culture
Literature of the
Middle East
Translation and
transnational politics
Gender studies
Forms of creolizations
Cosmopolitanism
Culture and trauma
Comparative literature
Pacific/ African/
Caribbean/ Chicana cultures
South Asia
Cross cultures
Philosophical
exchanges
Syncretisms
New media
Graphic narratives
Emerging genres
International politics
Science and literature
Neo colonialism
Ethnic Literature
Eco criticism/eco
feminism
The abstracts shall
not exceed 300 words. It should contain the title of the paper and the contact
details of the author. Send in your abstracts to
govtartsenglish@gmail.com
or
karimkkr@gmail.com
Mob: 9447454024
9946847682
Last Date of
submission of abstract: 27-11-2017
Date of intimation of
acceptance: 05-12-2017
Date of submission of
full paper: 29-12-2017
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