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H-ASIA October 12, 2012 CFP National Seminar: Revising the Normative: Using Postcolonialism to Readdress Culture, Literature and Performance, Nov. 30, 2012 Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, India ******************************************************************* From: H-Net Announcements <announce@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU> Revising the Normative: Using Postcolonialism to Readdress Culture, Literature and Performance Location: India Seminar Date: 2012-11-30 Date Submitted: 2012-10-09 Announcement ID: 197719 National Seminar on Revising the Normative: Using Postcolonialism to Readdress Culture, Literature and Performance 30 November 2012 Department of English Lovely Professional University Phagwara-144402, Punjab The abstract deadline is 05 November 2012. Even so many years after the advent of the postcolonial theory, when as a nation we are not entirely a marginalized race, are we not carrying with us the legacy of colonization? In this globalized world, our views, perception, expressions and popular culture are to a larger extent West-driven. To use the Macaulian phrase, as Indians many of us automatically believe that, all that is foreign and English is good and greater than our own. Popular movies like Rang de Basanti consciously or unconsciously portray the remnants of colonized minds, where a foreigner drops in to remind the newer generation about their proposed course of actions. The example of Rang de Basanti is only symptomatic of a greater problem in todays postcolonial world. Edward Said rebelled against the normative West in his seminal works questioning the power/knowledge to constitute the Oriental other as a particular subject of discourse. At this critical juncture vis--vis the postcolonial theory, we must interrogate whether we have lived the theory that we profess so vigorously in our daily discourses. Arent we through our popular culture and actions, reinforce the stereotypes thereby, making Macaulays prediction, of colonizing the mind of the natives, coming true even so many years after independence? Does the new historiography effectively help us to readdress and revise our relationship with the colonized past along with its political, social and economic ramifications? Instead of creating an alternative normative world for ourselves, are we appropriating erstwhile colonial strategies to hegemonize and monopolise the tools of protracted control? The above questions are only the tip of an iceberg that the present seminar aims to address. Papers and proposals reflecting some of the above issues and in the following broad areas are invited. The areas are only suggestive, not restrictive: Universality or difference-Euro centrism Representation of the East Nationalism, Trans-nationalism and Globalization Language and the Politics of Language Concept of Globalization Postcolonial Feminism Aboriginality, Subalternity and Representation Postcolonial Space(s) and Cosmopolitanism Hybridity, Liminality, and Creolization of Culture Neo-Imperialism Pitfalls of Postcolonialism Proposals or abstracts of approximately 300 words should be sent to englishseminar.lpu@gmail.com Please include your detail contact information, a brief bio (50 words) and your institutional affiliation at the end of your abstract. The abstract deadline is 05 November 2012. Registration Fee: Rs.500/- (Registration fee entitles the delegates to the seminar kit and lunch and tea on the day of the seminar) The fee can be paid through: 1.DD drawn in favour of Lovely Professional University payable at Jalandhar Details to be mentioned at the back of DD a. Name b. Full Postal Address c. Mobile phone no. d. On Account of English Seminar 2012 2.By cash: at the cash counter 32-103, LPU Dr. Kapil Convener Department of English, LPU,Phagwara, Punjab, India +91-9888929381 & Durbadal Bhattacharya Convener Department of English, LPU, Phagwara, Punjab, India +91-7589252792 Email: englishseminar.lpu@gmail.com H-Net reproduces announcements that have been submitted to us as a free service to the academic community. If you are interested in an announcement listed here, please contact the organizers or patrons directly. Though we strive to provide accurate information, H-Net (and H-ASIA)cannot accept responsibility for the text of announcements appearing in this service. Send comments and questions to H-Net Webstaff: <webstaff@mail.h-net.msu.edu>. H-Net Humanities and Social Sciences Online Humanities & Social Sciences Online Hosted by Matrix at Michigan State University Copyright (c) 1995-2012 ********************************************************************* To post to H-ASIA simply send your message to: <H-ASIA@h-net.msu.edu> For holidays or short absences send post to: <listserv@h-net.msu.edu> with message: SET H-ASIA NOMAIL Upon return, send post with message SET H-ASIA MAIL H-ASIA WEB HOMEPAGE URL: <http://h-net.msu.edu/~asia/>
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