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International Seminar on DIASPORIC WRITING: THE DYNAMICS OF BE/LONGING
Posted Date: 18 Feb 2008 Resource Type: Articles/Knowledge Sharing Category: General
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International Seminar
On
DIASPORIC WRITING: THE DYNAMICS OF BE/LONGING
DATE: February 21-22, 2008
VENUE: Convention Centre IGNOU
Organized by
English Faculty
School of Humanities
Indira Gandhi National Open University
New Delhi – 110068
THE CONTEXT
“The fact is that I did not really come here to get here, I sort of drifted here to get away from there”.
— Gita Mehta
The term ‘diaspora’, originally used for dispersal from one’s homeland, is now applied as a metaphoric designation for all expatriates, refugees, exiles and immigrants, whose lives, language and experiences have been altered by paradigms of bilingualism, biculturalism and geographical dislocation.
Diasporic writers are deeply attached to their centrifugal homeland, yet yearn to belong to their current abode. They are caught psychically between two worlds and this double marginalization by both their root culture and their host culture negates their belonging to either location. This condition of being “unhomed” is associated further with alienation, a desire to reclaim the past yet revolt against it, the yearning to go back forestalled by the inability to move out, and the urge to show solidarity to the home land but unwillingness to threaten relations with the host country.
When one looks at diasporic writing, one comes across tremendous creativity, hetroglosia, hybridity (mostly positive) and linguistic experimentation. Concerns touching upon race, ethnicity, belonging, otherness (as well as ‘othering’) gender, subalternaiety, voice do come in most of the time and that is a refreshing departure from the earlier more or less monolithic Anglo-American-centric, or Euro-centric fare which one worked with a few decades back.
In diasporic studies a lot of interdisciplinary work is happening. Our seminar has a relatively narrower focus: Some recent trends in diasporic literatures to see where they are headed. Is it a return to the roots or a re-alignment in the wake of a blending of two different world orders?
SPEAKERS
INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Key Note Address
Chairperson
Prof. Malashri Lal Prof. V.N. Rajasekharan Pillai, VC, IGNOU, India
International Speakers
Vice Chairperson
1. Prof. Sneja Gunew, Canada
2. Prof. Chelva Kanaganayakam, Canada
3. Prof. Prem Poddar, Denmark
4. Prof. John Thieme, U.K.
Prof. O.P. Mishra, PVC, IGNOU, India
National Speakers
Members:
1. Prof. Jameela Begum
2. Prof. Harish Narang
3. Prof. Shyamala Narayan
4. Dr. Hema Raghavan
5. Dr. Nandini Sahu
6. Prof. S.K. Sareen
7. Prof. Pankaj Singh
Prof. Smaro Kamboureli, Canada
Prof. Chelva Kanaganayakam , Canada
Prof. Malashri Lal, India
Prof. Prem Poddar, Denmark
Prof. Hema Raghavan, India
Prof. Anisur Rehman, India
Prof. Itesh Sachdev, United Kingdom
Dr. Neera Singh, India
Panelists
Prof. P. Geetha
Prof. Anisur Rehman
All communication regarding the seminar may be addressed to:
Neera Singh
Organizing Secretary
School of Humanities
Room #40, Block – F
IGNOU, Maidan Garhi,
New Delhi – 110 068
Telephone No.: 98112 25612
E-mail Address: neerasingh@yahoo.com
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