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LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic

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  • Profile picture of Esha Sil

    Esha Sil uploaded the file: Call for Papers: SPEAKING AS THE 'OTHER': CALLIOPE International Conference, University of Helsinki: 10-12 May 2021 to Group logo of LLC South Asian and South Asian DiasporicLLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 3 months, 1 week ago

    Call for Papers: SPEAKING AS THE ‘OTHER’: CALLIOPE International Conference, University of Helsinki: 10-12 May 2021
    SPEAKING AS THE ‘OTHER’: Coloniality, Subalternity, and Embodied Political Articulations
    (late 18th – early 20th centuries)
    10-12 May 2021
    Live in Helsinki and online
    This multidisciplinary conference seeks to examine perfo…[Read more]

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    Preetha Mani deposited An Aesthetics of Isolation: How Pudumaippittan Gave Pre-Eminence to the Tamil Short Story in the group Group logo of LLC South Asian and South Asian DiasporicLLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 4 months, 1 week ago

    The influential Tamil writer Pudumaippittan turned to the short story to theorize the relationship between literature and society in the late-colonial era. He used the genre’s brevity to compress his portrayals of well-known female types—such as widows, prostitutes, and goodwives—into singular emotional events. This enabled Pudumaippittan to evoke…[Read more]

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    Kerry Manzo started the topic CFP MLA 2021 Trans Persistence in South Asia and Beyond in the discussion Group logo of LLC South Asian and South Asian DiasporicLLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 10 months, 2 weeks ago

    Literary and cultural engagements with trans* bodies, politics, and assembly in literature of South Asia, its Diaspora, comparative, or transnational framework. 250 word abstract to Kerry.manzo@purchase.edu by March 20.

    Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 20 March 2020 Kerry Manzo, Purchase C, SU of New York (kerry.manzo@purchase.edu )

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    Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to Group logo of LLC South Asian and South Asian DiasporicLLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 1 year, 4 months ago

    The Comparative World Literature program at CSULB is excited to announce a new tenure-track position. We are looking for a colleague whose research is in the medical or health humanities and who could teach courses in our health humanities minor (that we are constructing at this very moment), such as Literature and Medicine. We are particularly…[Read more]

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    Preetha Mani deposited What Was So New about the New Story? Modernist Realism in the Hindi Nayī Kahānī in the group Group logo of LLC South Asian and South Asian DiasporicLLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 1 year, 5 months ago

    This essay examines the Hindi Nayī Kahānī, or New Story, Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, which was influential for the short stories, criticism, and literary history that its writers produced. Incorporating a view toward the larger “metaliterary” corpus in relation to which properly “literary” nayī kahānī texts were written, the essay shows h…[Read more]

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    Chandrima Chakraborty deposited Narendra Modi’s victory speech delivers visions of a Hindu nationalist ascetic in the group Group logo of LLC South Asian and South Asian DiasporicLLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 1 year, 8 months ago

    India’s re-elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered a victory speech that presented himself as a selfless and humble Hindu ascetic. This vision goes far to promote a Hindu nationalist ‘new India.’

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    Preetha Mani deposited Literary and Popular Fiction in Late Colonial Tamil Nadu in the group Group logo of LLC South Asian and South Asian DiasporicLLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months ago

    This essay explores an unprecedented distinction between literary and popular writing that emerged in debates in Maṇikkoṭi and Āṉanta Vikaṭaṉ, two well-known Tamil magazines that were launched in the 1930s. Through short stories and critical essays, the writers who contributed to these magazines attempted to create new lenses through which to v…[Read more]

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    Neelofer Qadir deposited Migritude’s Decolonial Lessons in the group Group logo of LLC South Asian and South Asian DiasporicLLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months ago

    In this essay, I trace the deep time of the Indian Ocean through and against which Shailja Patel fabulates the notion of migritude and, in particular, what its valences are for solidarities between black and brown Kenyans and other south-south relationships. Attentive to the multiple voices she invites into the text and the material objects that…[Read more]

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    Preetha Mani deposited Feminine Desire Is Human Desire in the group Group logo of LLC South Asian and South Asian DiasporicLLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months ago

    This article compares the 1950s and 1960s short story writing of two influential yet underexamined women writers, Mannu Bhandari (1931–) and R. Chudamani (1931–2010), who are considered key representatives of the Hindi and Tamil literary canons, respectively. Mani demonstrates that from within their specific geographic and historical contexts, Bha…[Read more]

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    Cheryl Narumi Naruse posted an update in the group Group logo of LLC South Asian and South Asian DiasporicLLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months ago

    CFP for the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum’s first guaranteed session for MLA 2019:

    Diasporas, Aesthetics, and Southeast Asia

    What aesthetics (or anesthetics) do diasporic movements into/out of/within Southeast Asia generate? Comparative and multimedia approaches welcomed. 300 word abstracts and bios by 15 March 2018;…[Read more]

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    Madhumita Lahiri deposited An Idiom for India: Hindustani and the Limits of the Language Concept in the group Group logo of LLC South Asian and South Asian DiasporicLLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month ago

    This essay explores the cultural legacy of Hindustani, which names the intimate overlap between two South Asian languages, Hindi and Urdu. Hindi and Urdu have distinct religious identities, national associations and scripts, yet they are nearly identical in syntax, diverging to some extent in their vocabulary. Hindi and Urdu speakers,…[Read more]

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    Nira Gupta-Casale posted an update in the group Group logo of LLC South Asian and South Asian DiasporicLLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months ago

    “The Digital Divide: South Asia in Crisis”

    While digital technologies are generally seen as empowering because they offer users increased scholarship opportunities and resources through Open Access, affordable education opportunities through MOOCS (Massive Open Online Courses), and unlimited interpersonal interactions through social media, why…[Read more]

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    Lucinda Newns started the topic Deadline Tomorrow: Postcolonial Studies Association Convention on Globalisation in the discussion Group logo of LLC South Asian and South Asian DiasporicSouth Asian Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months ago

    <p class=”p1″><span class=”s1″><b>Postcolonial Studies Association Convention</b></span></p>
    <p class=”p1″><span class=”s1″><i>School of Advanced Study, Senate House, University of London</i>
    <i>18–20 September 2017</i></span></p>
    <p class=”p1″><span class=”s1″><b>Special Topic: Globalisation</b></span></p>
    <p class=”p1″><span c…[Read more]

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    Rajender Kaur posted an update in the group Group logo of LLC South Asian and South Asian DiasporicLLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months ago

    Gauranteed panel of the llc South Asian and South Asian Diasporic Forum:

    Theorizing the Refugee

    Roundtable seeks to theorize the political figure of our time: the refugee who though stateless remains imbricated in hypernationalism of militarized borders. 300 word abstracts by March 15 to Rashmi Bhatnagar rb305@snu.edu.in

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    Chandrima Chakraborty started the topic CFP: 2018 MLA Special Session– Partition and/in South Asian Diasporas   in the discussion Group logo of LLC South Asian and South Asian DiasporicSouth Asian Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months ago

    Partition and/in South Asian Diasporas

    Seeking papers for a special session on how the 1947 Partition of British India appears in, erupts, underwrites or disrupts diasporic cultural productions (film, fiction, poetry, painting, play). Please send 250-word abstracts by 15 March 2017; Chandrima Chakraborty (chandri@mcmaster.ca).

    Thanks!

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    Lucinda Newns started the topic CFP UPDATE: PSA Convention 2017 on Globalisation – NEW KEYNOTES (Deadline: 2/28) in the discussion Group logo of LLC South Asian and South Asian DiasporicSouth Asian Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months ago

    Postcolonial Studies Association Convention

    School of Advanced Study, Senate House, University of London (UK), 18–20 September 2017

    We are pleased to announce that the 2017 PSA Convention will be held at the School of Advanced Study, Senate House, University of London, from 18th to 20th September 2017. Paper and panel proposals are invited fr…[Read more]

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    Gaura Shankar Narayan started the topic CFP MLA 2018: Special Session: "South-Asia in/and Romanticism" in the discussion Group logo of LLC South Asian and South Asian DiasporicSouth Asian Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months ago

    Dear Friends,

    There was a typo in the previous post so I am re-sending the message and the CFP. Here it is:

    The South Asian and South Asian Diaspora Forum is partnering with the Keats-Shelley Association of America to propose a joint special session for MLA 2018 on “South Asia in/and Romanticism.” Below please find an expanded CFP and note the…[Read more]

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    Gaura Shankar Narayan started the topic CFP MLA 2018 Special Session: "South-Asia in/and Romanticism" in the discussion Group logo of LLC South Asian and South Asian DiasporicSouth Asian Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months ago

    Dear All,

    The South Asian and South Asian Diaspora Forum is partnering with the Keats-Shelley Association of America to propose a joint special session for MLA 2018 on “South Asia in/and Romanticism.” Below please find an expanded CFP and note the deadline of 1 March 2017 for submitting abstracts. Please let us know if you have any…[Read more]

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    Rajender Kaur started the topic Panels organized at the MLA 2017 in the discussion Group logo of LLC South Asian and South Asian DiasporicSouth Asian Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month ago

    Dear All,

    The South Asian and South Asian Diasporic Literatures and Cultures Forum has organized three panels are the panels at the upcoming MLA Convention in Philadelphia.  In addition, I am very pleased to report that the collaborative panel organized by Kanika Batra with the  group LLC African to 1990:  “Queer and Here: Crossing Gendered an…[Read more]

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    Subarno Chattarji deposited ‘Culture(s) of Corruption’: Media Representations and Anxieties in the group Group logo of LLC South Asian and South Asian DiasporicLLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months ago

    The article analyzes media representations of the anti-corruption movement in India led by Anna Hazare in 2011

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