Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU)
School of Humanities
New Delhi
International Conference
Literature and Marginality: Comparative
Perspectives in African American Australian and Indian Dalit Literature
February, 20-22, 2013
About IGNOU
UNESCO in a recent appreciation
hailed IGNOU as the living embodiment of inclusive knowledge society in a
globalised world of learning. The Indira Gandhi National Open University
(IGNOU), established by an Act of Parliament in 1985, has continuously striven
to build an inclusive knowledge society through inclusive education. It has
tried to increase the Gross Enrollment Ratio (GER) by offering high-quality
teaching through the Open and Distance Learning (ODL) mode. IGNOU currently
serves the educational aspirations of over 4 million students in India and 36
other countries through 21 Schools of Studies and a network of 67 regional
centres, around 3,000 learner support centres and 67 overseas centres. The
University offers about 490 certificate, diploma, degree and doctoral
programmes, with strength of nearly 420
faculty members and academic staff at the headquarters and regional centres and
about 36,000 academic counsellors from conventional institutions of higher
learning, professional organisations, and industry among others.
The University has made a
significant mark in the areas of higher education, community education and
continual professional development. The University has been networking with
reputed public institutions and private enterprises for enhancing the
educational opportunities being offered by it. As a world leader in distance
education, it has been conferred with awards of excellence by the Commonwealth
of Learning (COL), Canada, several times. In January 2010, it was listed 12th
in the webometric ranking of Indian universities, based on the calibre of its
presence on the Internet.
CONCEPT NOTE
‘Marginality’ is generally
employed to interpret and analyse socio-cultural, political and economic
spheres, where disadvantaged people struggle to gain access to resources, and
equal participation in social life. The superstructures of race in Africa,
Australia, USA and caste in India inform, deform, and complicate the identities
of the marginalized along lines of gender, class, and family structure. In
the modern day debate, various facets of marginality have been discussed in
scholarly circles in almost every disciplinary area including literature,
history, sociology, and political science with implications for issues as
diverse as justice, gender, equality and inequality. This academic exercise
which engage experts from National and International arena will explore the
convergences in imagination and expressions of writers like Ngugi and Achebe,
Kim Scott and Alexis Wright and then Valmiki and Gaikwad.
Over the years, the traditional
assumptions of disciplines have been challenged and scholars have also explored
the role of the “canon” and debated on what the so called “great” (canonical)
texts may be in their respective disciplines, and the more profound grounds of
their canonicity. There is a great academic need to explore these
comparative perspectives in African American and Australian, Indian Dalit
Literature. The advent of literary and cultural theories in the literary
field has brought major changes in the way of reading, interpreting and
understanding literature and culture. This has empowered, in a significant way,
marginalized discourses which often remained unnoticed by the hegemonic
culture. This has constantly been argued that a comprehensive literary
study of marginality and its epistemic role is necessary and would contribute
to a better understanding of how humanistic knowledge has been created,
structured and transmitted.
The proposed bilingual (Hindi and
English) conference is to contextualize marginality in an Inter-disciplinary
framework with reference to past and with its possible effects on life in
future and also provide a comparative platform of literary study between
Dalit, African, Australian and American discourses. Although the chief concern
will be to review literature on marginality and figure out the points of coming
together and departure in terms of marginalized writings yet scholarly
contributions from every domain are also invited so that the inter-disciplinary
or multi-disciplinary approaches can authenticate the main theme. The
innovative, exciting, and intellectual discussion by the scholars of all
domains will also help in promoting a high order research in this area.
- Subaltern Consciousness in African Australian American and Dalit Writings.
- Parallelism and Ambivalences in literature of the ‘margins’
- ‘Art’ and ‘Aesthetics’ of African Australian American and Dalit Writings
- Literature of Marginality: African American Australian and Dalit Literature.
- Art, literature and films as modes of expression and Resistance
- Issues of language, form and genre
- Nation and its Others
- Autobiographies as layers of Identity and Resistance.
- Representation of women, caste and Race.
- Dynamics of Social exclusion - Issues, Trends and Prospects
- The Subaltern Consciousness and the associated challenges
- Politics of Empowerment and Subaltern issues.
Any other topic(s) relevant to the theme of the Conference
is/are welcomed.
The conference format would be a
mix of thematic and plenary sessions, panel discussion and presentation of
papers. If needed, parallel session may be organised for presentation of papers.
In the end, recommendations of the conference will be deliberated and drafted.
Submission of Abstracts: 15 January, 2013
Submission of completed papers: 30 January, 2013
Communication of outcome of review: 07 February, 2013
Prof. Gopi Nath Pradhan
Vice Chancellor
Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU)
Conveners:
Prof. Vimal Thorat (HINDI) & Dr Parmod Mehra (English), Indira Gandhi National Open University.
Best Paper Awards
The Conveners will select a paper from each Technical Session which will be given Best Paper Award.
Contact Details:
Prof Vimal Thorat (Hindi) Dr
Parmod Mehra (English)
School of Humanities, Block-F, Tagore Bhawan, IGNOU, New
Delhi-110068
Email: iclm2013
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