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CALL FOR RESEARCH PAPERS ON FOLLOWING ANTHOLOGIES

1. Indian Drama in English: A Feminine Perspective

2. The Fictional World of Amitav Ghosh

3. The Changing Face of Diaspora in Commonwealth Literature

Editors

Dr. Arvind Nawale

Dr. Nibedita Mukherjee

No Contribution/Subscription fees. Papers will be accepted and published free of cost and only on basis of

quality and each contributor will get a free complimentary copy from publisher

Dear All,

We are glad to inform you that we are going to edit jointly following three

anthologies of research papers tentatively titled as per following details. Authentic, scholarlyand unpublished research papers are invited from

scholars/faculty/researchers/writers/professors from all over the world for this volume.

1. Indian Drama in English: A Feminine Perspective

Women have been assigned diversified roles in Indian society on one aspect she is the

Adishakti, the source of all power, and on the other hand she is the virtual doormat, lying

prostrate at the feet of her patidevta( hudband-god) and performing the stridharma(theduties of a wife) which led to ultimate self-effacement. This complex role of women in Indian

society _ both the Grihalakshmi and the coquette have been depicted with clarity in Indian

Drama in English. This section of the dramatic genre began in 1837 with Krishna MohanBanerjees The Persecutedand since then with stalwarts like Michael Madhusudhan Dutt and

Rabindranath Tagore, it achieved a height of its own. They were followed by creative souls

like Manjiri Isvaran, G.V.Desani, Lakhan Dev, Pretish Nandy, Asif currimbhoy, Girish

Karnard, Vijay Tendulkar, Badal Sirkar, Mahesh Dattani etc. who have all contributed

profoundly to the enrichment of this literary genre.

The aim of the present anthology is to present papers which study the cause of the

feminine, i.e. both the female position and psychological situation as depicted in the varied

plays. Papers may also considered on plays which have been written in Indian languages but

were later translated into English.

2. The Fictional World of Amitav Ghosh

An anthropologist trained in India, Alexandria and Oxford, Amitav Ghosh entered the

fictional world with an intention of glancing backwards. His primary concern is the Diaspora

and related themes such as emigration, exile, cultural displacement and transnational cultural

flow. However, unlike Salman Rushdie, nation is not the only theme of Ghoshs fictional

world. Rather he is concerned with the family in its various aspects (both the extended joint

family and the segregated nuclear family) as the central imaginative unit. For this

purpose Ghosh employs variety of narrative techniques, genres and storytelling styles to

invent a neverland which again coheres to reality.


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With Amitav Ghosh the boundary between literary study and political praxis dissolves and

his fiction becomes one signifying system which dissolves the borders of narrative

aesthetics and effects radical transformation of reality. The present anthology calls for papers

which study the fiction of Amitav Ghosh from this varied aspects and highlight the thematic

condition and character situation therein.

3. The Changing Face of Diaspora in Commonwealth Literature

The Commonwealth literature shares in general an awareness of the British presence that

look back at the colonial past with hatred and a sense of acute marginalization and this post

colonial re-membering binds together the vast body of diversified literary production

generated by these fifty-four member states of the Commonwealth of Nations. A current

theme of these commonwealth narratives is the varied interpretations of the concept of

Diaspora. It is a concept which originated in mythical age with the scattering of the Jews

and has now obtained a new socio-political significance. Initially Diaspora implied forceful

evacuation from the mother-state and a lack of assimilation in the foreign soil. So the

diasporic individuals looked back with painful nostalgia towards home and failed to mergeinto the mainstream culture of their present habitation. This sense of marginalisation is well

observed in the novels of Anita Desai, G.V.Desani, Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh,

J.G.Farell, Wole Soyinka and so on. But in the wake of globalization, the situation underwent

a massive shift. Novels by the second wave diasporic writers such as Arundhuti Roy, Bharti

Mukherjee, Kiran Desai etc. highlight this changing scenario. The present anthology desires

to present the concept of the diaspora from its varied angles and calls for papers related to

this issue in Commonwealth literature.

Proposed Publisher:

The volume will be published with an ISBN (International Standard Book Number)

by a renowned publisher.

Editing requirements:

Paper size: A4, Font & size: Times New Roman 12, Spacing: Single line, Margin of 1

inch on all four sides.

Title of the paper: bold, title case (Capitalize each word), centered.

Text of the paper: justified. Font & size: Times New Roman 12.

References: Please follow MLA style (Only Author-Date or Number System) strictly.

Dont use Foot Notes. Instead use End Notes. Titles of books:Italics.

Titles of articles from journals and books: quoted.

Articles should be submitted as MS Word 2003-2007attachments only.

The paper should not usually exceed 14 pages maximum, 5 pages minimum in single

spacing.

Each paper must be accompanied by i) A declaration that it is an original work and

has not been published anywhere else or send for publication ii) Abstract of paper

about 100-200 words and iii) A short bio-note of the contributor(s) indicating name,

institutional affiliation, brief career history, postal address, mobile number and e-mail,

in a single attachment. Please dont send more attachments. Give these things belowyour paper and send all these things in a separate single MS-Word attachment.


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The papers submitted should evince serious academic work contributing new

knowledge or innovative critical perspectives on the subject explored.

Mode of Submission:

Each contributor is advised to send full paper with brief bio-note, declaration andabstract as a single MS-Word email attachments to email addresses:

[email protected] up to 29th Nov. 2011 .

Selection Procedure:

All submissions will be sent for blind peer reviewing. Final selection will be made

only if the papers are recommended for publication by the reviewers. The details of the

selection of your paper will be informed to you telephonically or on your email. The editor

has the right to make necessary editing of selected papers for the sake of conceptual clarity

and formatting. Non-selected papers will not be sent back to the contributor in any form. So,

all contributors are advised to keep a copy of their submission with them. Each contributorwill get a free complimentary copy from publisher but in case of joint paper, only first writer

will get free copy.

Plagiarism Alert:

Contributors are advised to adhere to strict academic ethics with respect to

acknowledgment of original ideas from others. The editors will not be responsible for any

such lapse of the contributor. All submissions should be original and must be accompanied

by a declaration that it is an original work and has not been published anywhere else. It will

be your sole responsibility for such lapses, if any. Neither editor, nor publisher will beresponsible for it.

Last date for submission: 29th Nov. 2011.

Thanks.

Dr. Nibedita Mukherjee

(Faculty, Dept of English, Bankura Christian College, Bankura (W.B) -722101

Cell No. 09434335848

E-Mail:[email protected]

Dr. Arvind Nawale

(Head, Dept of English, Shivaji College, Udgir (M.S.) -413 517

Cell No. 07588390675, 09011155955

Web: http://arvindnawale.blogspot.com/

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