ENGL 524 POSTCOLONI AL LITERATURE - docin.com Douding Network

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Girish Karnad Bibliography « sotosay

Girish Karnad Bibliography « sotosay

Postcolonial Studies Online Resources

Web links:
1) Postcolonial Studies at Emory Website
http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Contents.html
2) Postcolonial literature: a web guide to postcolonial literature from literaryhistory.com
http://www.literaryhistory.com/20thC/Groups/postcolonial.htm
3) Studies in World Literature in English and Postcolonialism
http://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/worldlit/world_link.htm
4. Postcolonial Text http://postcolonial.org/

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National Seminar on Glimpses of Land and Landscape in Indian Literature

National Seminar on "Glimpses of Land and Landscape in Indian Literature"

Date: 7-9 March 2011

Organized by 

Department of Modern Indian languages and literary Studies, 

University of Delhi

Abstracts on the theme of the seminar or any of the following topics are welcome from scholars:

1. Representation of Land and landscape in ancient texts/Indian epics/medieval Indian literature/modern Indian literature
2. Politicization of land and landscape in Indian literature
3. Land and the cultural identity
4. Geography and Indian Literature : interrelationship
5. Representation of rural, urban and Rurban spaces in Indian literature
6. Eco-criticism and Indian literature
7. Land, landscape and its arrangement in Indian literature
8. Position of land and landscape in Indian literature
9. Terrain and topography in Indian literature
10. Land and community in Indian literature

Registration: No registration fee will be charged to any participant.

Travel expenses and accommodation: It will not be possible for us to provide travel expenses to all the outstation participants. However, accommodation and local hospitality will be provided to all the outstation participants

Last date of the submission of the abstract: 25/02/2011
Last date of the submission of the full paper: 28/02/2011

For more details, please contact the seminar coordinator, Dr Rajendra Mehta
Email: darvesh18 AT yahoo.com, Mobile: 09868218928

Literature & Translation

Literature & Translation

World Literature MidSemester Evaluation Comments

Following is my report after having evaluated the III  year BA World literature mid-semester answer scripts. 

All answer scripts display a good understanding of the texts. On that front no issues. However, generally all have stopped at answering the questions. A few specfic recommendations to improve the quality of answers (read: to score better)

• The names of plays and novels need to be underlined and those of essays and poems put within quotation marks
• For better marks you  need to use textual evidence by means of quoting it and for further more, bring your extra reading beyond classroom discussion to bear upon the answers
• Long answers cannot be in one single para. They need to have multiple paras to discuss multiple ideas. The answers of many do not have paragraph divisions.
• First name is not used in academic writing, like Alexander for Solzhenitsyn, but last name or the full name
  
• The content words in the titles of texts should be in caps
• Write the question numbers outside the margins
• Leave some line space between two answers ( a few have not done it)

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Everything Politics is, Chomsky is Not

Everything Politics is, Chomsky is Not

Two-day Conference on Indian Cinema and the City

Two-day Conference on Indian Cinema and the City 

3
–
4
November
2011


Organized 
By 
Chao
 Center
 for
 Asian
 Studies,
 Rice
 University


Cinema Space
 proposes
 to
 bring
 together
 scholars
 working
 on
 Indian
 cinema
 in
 an
 attempt
 to
 refocus structuring
 of
 the
 cinematic
 city
 will
 be
 the
 organizing
 thread
 of
 the
 conference.
 The
 city
 here
 is
 understood
 as
 a
 place holder
 for
 bringing
 together
 and
 delineating
 concerns
 of
 aesthetics,
 technology,
 modernity
and
development.



In
 the
 last
 decade,
 with
 the
 emergence
 of
 a
 globalized
 cultural
 industry
 that
 has
 been
 termed
 Bollywood’, 
a 
segment
 of 
Indian 
cinema 
has 
been
 receiving 
much 
attention
 in
Western
 academia 
both
 in such
 as
 song‐dance
 sequences
 and
 complex
 plot
 lines
 that
 were
 seen
 as
 hindrances
 to
 the
 appeal
 of
 Indian focus
 on
 this
 cultural
 value
 of
 ‘Bollywood’
 and
 its
 critique
 based
 on
 the
 argument
 of
 multiplicity
 of
 cinemas
 in
 India
 (or
 regional
 cinemas
 as
 they
 are
 called)
 continues
 to
 read
 aesthetics
 as
 cultural
 difference.
This
 takes 
attention 
away 
from 
cinema’s 
specificity 
as 
a
 techno‐aesthetic,
 which 
has
 salience
 across 
regional/national
 particularities.
 This 
move 
away 
from
particularities
 cannot 
be
‘post‐’
or
‘pre‐’,
 but
 is 
grounded 
on 
the
 national
 itself,
 hence 
the 
focus 
in 
this
conference
 on 
one 
national 
cinema.



 The
 conference
 attempts
 to
 initiate
 new
 conversations
 between
 papers
 that
 address
 the
 aesthetics 
and 
narrative 
forms 
of
 Indian
 cinema
 from 
different 
standpoints.
The
 different 
axes 
around
 which
 city 
space 
is 
organized
 in 
India n
cinema 
within,
without 
and
 at 
the
edges of 
the 
diegetic 
frame
 will
 be
 of
 interest.
 It
 proposes
 to
 think
 through
 the
 production
 of
 space
 in
 Indian
 cinema
 as
 linked
 to
 cinematic
 and
 other 
art 
practices
 in
 other
 parts 
of 
the 
world 
with
 which 
it 
ha s
been 
in
constant 
contact.


These from 
its 
inception.
The 
imagining
 of 
the 
cinematic 
city 
is 
a
significant 
thematic
 that
 will 
allow 
us
 to
 think
 through
 the
 structuring
 of
 space
 in
 Indian
 cinema
 outside
 culturalist
 assumptions,
 and
 to
 help
 us
 understand
 its
 aesthetic
 practice
 as
 historical
 and
 internationalist
 at
 the
 same
 time.
 For
 analytic
 purposes,
 the
 conference
 would
 propose
 to
 bracket
 off
 the
 understanding
 of
 cinema
 as
 a
 space
 of
 representation
 to
 focus
 on
 the
 aesthetic
 concerns
 governing
 it.
 Rather
 than
 cinema
 being
 a
 space
 through
 which
 one
 finds
 traces
 of
 real
 cities,
 the
 conference
 attempts
 to
 think
 of
 space
 of
 the
 city
 in
 cinema
 as 
a
frame 
of 
intelligibility.



The 
questions 
that 
the 
conference 
will 
address
 include,
 but
 are 
not
 limited
 to:


The 
aesthetic 
of 
cinematic
 city


City, 
modernity 
and 
the 
film 
frame


Internationalisms
 and
 the
 cinematic
 city


Realism,
 melodrama 
and 
the city


Trajectories
 of
 film
 aesthetics
 beyond
 the 
nation



Film 

State 
formations, 
film
 policy



Prof.
Moinak
 Biswas ,
Department
 of
 Film 
Studies, 
Jadhavpur 
University,
 Kolkata
 (India)
 will 
give 
the


Abstracts
 of
 not
 more
 than
 500
 words
 along
 with
 a
 short
 bio‐note
 should
 be
 sent
 to
 Ratheesh
 Radhakrishnan
 at
 rr16 AT rice DOT edu
 latest
 by
 April
 10,
 2011.
 Emails
 should
 have
 “film
 conference”
 as
 its
 subject
line. 
Acceptance 
notifications 
will 
be 
sent 
by
 April 
25,
 2011.
The 
Chao 
Center 
will 
be 
happy 
to
 host
 the
 selected
 scholars
 in
 Houston
 for
 the
 duration
 of
 the
 conference,
 but
 will
 be
 unable
 to
 cover


Selected 
workshop 
proceedings 
will 
be 
submitted 
for
 publication
 consideration 
as 
a 
special 
journal
 issue

Inclusion
 in
 the
 proposed
 special
 number
is
 subject
 to
 a
 provisional
 review
 process;
 acceptance
 and
publication

For 
future
 updates 
on 
the 
conference:
http://chaocenter.rice.edu/Content.aspx?id=650


Ratheesh 
Radhakrishnan


Post doctoral 
Fellow



Rice

Houston,
TX
77005
USA


rr16@rice.edu


http://asia.rice.edu

"History of the Subaltern Classes" "The Concept of Ideology" "Cultural Themes: Ideological Material"- Antonio Gramsci

the following write up on "History of the Subaltern Classes" "The Concept of Ideology" "Cultural Themes: Ideological Material" is by Josna Perumannil

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The term subaltern is used in postcolonial theory. The exact meaning of the term in current philosophical and critical usage is disputed. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak use it in a more specific sense. She argues that subaltern is not just a classy word for oppressed, for Other, for somebody who's not getting a piece of the pie....In postcolonial terms, everything that has limited or no access to the cultural imperialism is subaltern-—a space of difference. Now who would say that's just the oppressed? The working class is oppressed. It's not subaltern....Many people want to claim subalternity. Subaltern was first used in a non-military sense by Marxist Antonio Gramsci.

History of the Subaltern Classes

In the state there are two groups one is the ruling classes and the other is the subaltern classes. Ruling classes those who handling the State power. They are the dominating class. The Subaltern classes are part the ‘civil society’. They are intertwined with the civil society, and thereby with the history of the States and the groups of State.

Gramsci emphasizes the centrality of the State and State Power during a subaltern class struggle. He states that the possession of State Power is crucial to the Subaltern class struggle. Due to the complexity of formation of the Subaltern classes and diversity of subjects that constitute the Subaltern class it becomes very difficult for the Subaltern classes to unite and rise against ruling classes.

The history of the Subaltern groups is very complex. It must include all the repercussions of party activity, throughout the area of the subaltern groups themselves taken globally, and also upon the attitudes of the dominant groups. Among the subaltern groups, one will exercise hegemony through the mediation of a party; it must be established by studying the development of the all other parties too. The hegemony or the supremacy of a social group manifests itself in two ways, as ‘domination’ and as ‘intellectual and moral leadership’. The dominate group even uses armed force to subjugate the antagonistic group. In order to win the governmental power, they already exercise the ‘leadership’.

The Concept of ‘Ideology’ and Cultural Themes: Ideological Material

‘Ideology’ was an aspect of ‘sensationalism’. Different meanings of ‘ideology’ was ‘science of ideas’, ‘analysis of ideas’ and ‘investigation of the original ideas’. Ideas derived from sensations. In Marxist philosophy of praxis represents a distinct advance and historically is precisely in opposition to ideology. Ideology contains a negative value judgment in Marxist philosophy, the Ideology as the ‘Base’ and praxis as a superstructure.

The main elements of error in assessing the value of ideologies within Marxist philosophy are

1. The base always determines the super structure but the super structure cannot determine the base.

2. If any political solution is ideological, it is sidelined as being impractical and inferior.

3. Ideology is only superficial; it does not have any concrete effects.

Gramsci points out that there is always an opposition between ideology and praxis wherein ideology is assigned an inferior position. He explains the ideology and the ideological materials (materials through which ideology operates) are very crucial in understanding the methodological criterion to approach the subaltern class struggle.

Gramsci states that the print media is one of the ideological materials through which the dominant ideology is propagated. He even believes that the first step to stop being subalternized is by serious intellectual and moral activity and also the erasing the concept of ‘mass’. Through this essay Gramsci adds an new dimension to the domain of cultural studies.

Jawaharlal Nehru University - JNU Admission 2011

ADMISSION 2011-12

Application Forms and Prospectus for admission to the following programmes of study are being issued by the University from 7th February 2011.

Entrance Examination for admission to various programmes of study under Category 'A' will be held between 17th and 20th May 2011 in 51 cities in India and also in Kathmandu (Nepal).  

Sets of Application Form and Prospectus can be obtained either

(i) Through post

1. for JNU Entrance Examination: by sending crossed Bank Draft (valid for six months) for Rs. 300/-
2. for Combined Entrance Examination for Biotechnology Programme:by sending crossed Bank draft (valid for six months) for Rs.260/-  

drawn in favour of Jawaharlal Nehru University payable at New Delhialongwith a self-addressed (unstamped) envelope of the minimum size of 30 cms X 25 cms. clearly indicating the Category for which the Application Form is required on the self-addressed envelope to the Section Officer (Admissions), Room No. 28, Administrative Block, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi-110067. Money Orders and Cheques are not accepted. Please do not send requests for application form through private courier services;

Or

(ii)  in person from the Counter in the Administrative Block of the University on cash payment of Rs.200/- per set from 10.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m. and from 2.00 p.m. to 4.00 p.m. on all working days (Monday to Friday). BPL card holders will be issued a set of application form & prospectus free of cost on submissiion of a copy of the BPL card issued by the competent authority showing their name in the card.  

 Last date for issue of Application Forms   

(i) By Post   : March 10, 2011 

(ii) At Cash Counter  : March 21, 2011

 Last date for receipt of completed Application Forms : March 21, 2011

For additional details refer to the JNU website

http://www.jnu.ac.in/

http://www.jnu.ac.in/main.asp?sendval=Prospectus#sss

SUMMER SCHOOL“Philosophy for the Social Sciences and Humanities”

Manipal Centre for Philosophy & Humani es

Manipal University, Manipal

SIXTH SUMMER SCHOOL

On

Philosophy for the Social Sciences and Humanities

(Sponsored by the Indian Council of Philosophical Research)

The Sixth Summer School on “Philosophy for the Social Sciences and Humani es” organised by Prof Sundar Sarukkai will be held at Manipal University again this year. In this course students will not only enrich their conceptual understanding of social sciences and humani es through a series of lectures, workshop presenta ons and ac vi es but will also engage with their own disciplines and research areas through wri ng, discussions and reflec on.

The uniqueness of this year’s workshop is the theme Banality of Evil. Under this broad theme we will discuss poli cal and social philosophy drawing from both Indian and Western approaches.

Dates: Monday, July 4, 2011 – Friday, July 15, 2011

Who can apply?
Students who are doing their PhD, MPhil or MA can apply for this course. We encourage young faculty in social science and ac vists who are interested in philosophy to also apply.

How to apply?
Send a CV (with marks, email, phone, and contact address details) along with a statement on why you want to a end this course and par cularly how this theme is related to your work or future interests. The last date for receiving the complete applica on is April 1, 2011. There is no course
fee.

Accommodation
Selected par cipants will be provided accommoda on at Manipal University during the course period.

Contact
Send your applica on as an email a achment to Manipal Centre for Philosophy and Humanities (MCPH), mcphoffice@gmail.com or mail a hard copy to the address below. Please type “Summer School 2011” in the subject line.

Manipal Centre for Philosophy & Humanities
Old Tapmi Building, Behind Post Office
Manipal University, Manipal
Karnataka 576104
Phone: 820-2923157
Web:

http://www.manipal.edu/Ins tu ons/UniversityDepartments/MCPHManipal/Pages/Welcome.aspx

Introduction: Theorising Culture, Reading ourselves-Kenneth Womack

the following write up on Introduction: Theorising Culture, Reading ourselves is by Panom Kaewphadee

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Introduction: Theorising Culture, Reading ourselves is an essay written by Kenneth Womack from an anthology of essays on cultural Studies called Literary Theory: A Reader and Guide.

In Introduction: Theorising Culture, Reading Ourselves Womack traces the development of cultural studies as a discipline through the ages by referring to works by eminent writers and thinkers of that particular time. At the beginning of the essay, Womack puts forth his ideas that cultural studies not only urges us to look at the “social, artistic, political, economic and linguistic mélange”, but also to look inside of ourselves in order to understand how the norms in the society have shaped us. Womack goes on to talk about the postwar stance of cultural studies which no longer deals with social norms and values but criticizes cultural relations and intellectual domination.

Womack emphasizes on works by J. Hillis Miller which “demonstrate the interdisciplinary possibilities of cultural studies”. In works such as Cultural Studies and Reading (1997), The Ethics of Reading: Kant de Man, Eliot, Trollope, James, and Benjamin (1987), and Version of Pygmalion (1990), Miller tries to explain the reflexive process that occurs between the text and the reader. Such a process, Says Miller, allows readers to give conclusive ideas about the properties of literary texts and its “sensibilities of their theoretical premises.”

What is clearly portrayed in the essay is its emphasis on the shift that takes cultural studies from its dealing with a reading of the Great Traditions to its intersecting with literary criticism and popular cultures.