Schedule: The Indian World(s) of Indian English Literature

14^th March 2013

Session 1: 10-11.30

a.      Introduction and Welcome

b.      Explorations

1.      D VENKAT RAO, Literary Inquiries: Some Future Anterior Reflections

2.      MAKARAND PARANJAPE, "Indian English Literature--Changing Wor(l)ds."

Chair: Nageswara Rao

TEA 11.30-11.45

Session 2: 11.45-1.15

Among Indian Literatures

1.      MADHUMITA ROY, ANJALI GERA ROY, The Talismanic Stories: A Comparative Study of Chandrakanta and Haroun and the Sea of Stories

2.      KOMAL AGARWAL, History and Authenticity from Local to Global Encounters: Continuity in ‘Regional’ Cultural and Linguistic Inflections in Phanishwar Nath Renu’s Maila Aanchal and Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies

3.      BRATI BISWAS, Marichjhapi massacre in Fiction: Language, Caste and Location

Chair: Avadesh Kumar SIngh

LUNCH 1.15-2.00 PM

Session 3: 2-3.30

Locations

1.      AVADESH KUMAR SINGH, "Worlds with the World: World literature and Indian Worlds in Indian English Literature."

2.      MINI CHANDRAN, Local Worlds in a Global Language

3.      ROHINI MOKASHI-PUNEKAR, 'Aspects of Subalterneity in IWE: some reflections'

Chair: Harish Trivedi

TEA 3.30-3.45

Session 4: 3.45-5.15

Mediations

1.      ARSHAD SAID KHAN, Desissies: Mapping a School of Indian Transgender Erotica Online

2.      MEENA PILLAI, Is there an ‘Indian English’ Cinema? Midnight’s Children and the Circuits and Traces of Indian English Literature in Diasporic Cinematic Imagination

3.      PRIYA KUMAR, The Making of the Sunderbans in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide

Chair: GK Das

Conference Dinner 7.30 pm onwards

Poetry Reading by Nabina Das, Makarand Paranjape, Dhananjay Singh, GJV Prasad, and others. Entertainment programme by CES.

15^th March 2013

Session 5: 10-11.30

Contexts

1.      M ASADUDDIN, The Contiguous Worlds of IE Writers: Some Observations

2.      RINA RAMDEV AND DEBADITYA BHATTACHARYA, The Indian Troubadour: Circuits of Authorship and Patronage in the Age of the Literature Festival

3.      SOMESHWAR SATI, Packaging India in Indigenous Narrative modes: The poetics, politics and economics of the novelistic practice

Chair: Makarand Paranjape

TEA 11.30-11.45

Session 6: 11.45-1.15

Interrogations

1.      MARGARET L.PACHUAU, Situating Indian English Literature :The Mizo Dynamics  

2.      VEIO POU, Making of a Frontier Literature: Writings in English from the Northeast

3.       SOMJYOTI MRIDHA, Ethnonationalism in recent ‘Kashmiri’ English Writings: Politics of Identity and (Un)Belonging

Chair: M Asaduddin

LUNCH 1.15-2.00 PM

Session 7: 2-3.30

Identities

1.      ANGELIE MULTANI, Crossing the Lakshman Rekha: Transgressive Women Artistes

2.       RAJ KUMAR, Radicalization of Dalit Self: A Reading of Dalit Literature

3.       MEENAKSHI MALHOTRA, The Different Life-Worlds of Indian Lifewriting

Chair:  D Venkat Rao

Tea 3.30-3.45

Session 8: 3.45-5.30

Poetics

1.      SHRUTI SAREEN, Frontiers: Dividing and Connecting Places – in the poetry of Arundhathi Subramaniam, Anjum Hasan, C.P. Surendran and Tabish Khair

2.      WAFA HAMID “Ravishing (Dis)unities” : The Poetics of Spatial and Religious Identity in Agha Shahid Ali’s Ghazals

3.      ANURIMA CHANDA Depictions of India through Indian English Children’s Literature: From Didacticism and Nonsense towards Entertainment

4.      DHANANJAY SINGH  "Reading Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children in a Classical Indian Paradigm"

Chair: Raj Kumar

5.30: Valedictory