Tuesday, March 29, 2011
UGC-Sponsored National Seminar on Resistance Studies
23 -24 August 2011
Theme: Speaking of the Subaltern: Exploring the Past; Anticipating the future
Organized by The Department of English, Pallagatti Adavappa First Grade College, Tiptur, Karnataka
Venue: Kalpataru Vidya Samsthe Campus Tiptur, Karnataka, 572202
e-mail: pacseminar2011 AT gmail.com
About the Seminar: A group of Indian scholars brought this term into much popularity and made it focal point of research, investigation, critical scholarship and publication through their Subaltern Studies. The Subaltern studies published nine volumes on South Asian history and society, particularly from "subaltern perspective" during 1982-1996. From then onwards this term attracts the attention of many researchers and scholars especially of social scientists and theologians. The geopolitical, economic, historical, political and social maps of the highly backward Indians of the rural and urban regions guided by their 'subaltern consciousness' make us alert to recurring famine, drought, starvation, malnutrition, disease, superstitious belief, bonded slavery, sexual exploitation and humiliation as the by-product of elite society.
Papers are invited for presentation from researchers and teachers on the following areas and related topics (but not limited to):
· Discrimination by Caste/ Class/Gender
· Historiography of India
· Comparative subaltern movements and cults across the globe
· Distribution of Power and Wealth
· Role of physical coercion of the state
· Ideology of nationalism and class
· Double colonization of women
Abstract
The abstract in softcopy not exceeding 250 words, with title and author's name as it should appear in certificate, typed in Times New Roman on A4 size, in MS-Word Format, double line spacing should be submitted as an attachment only through e-mail on or before 10th April 2011, to:
For more details, please contact Dr UdayaRavi at udayaravi.shastry AT gmail.com
Monday, March 28, 2011
Male Madeshwara: A Kannada Oral Epic - Bookshare - Accessible Books for Individuals with Print Disabilities
Male Madeshwara: A Kannada Oral Epic - Bookshare - Accessible Books for Individuals with Print Disabilities: "K. Keshavan Prasad and C. N. Ramachandran and L. N. Bhat"
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BA EST 431 Literary Theory End Sem Model Question Paper
END SEMESTER EXAMINATION MARCH: 2011
IV SEMESTER
Programme: BA (PSEng, JPE, CEP) Max Marks: 100
Course: Literary Theory Duration: 3 Hrs
Code: EST 431
Answer Any Five of the Following. (5x20=100)
Note:
i. The questions are designed to bring out your positions viz-a-viz the theories you have studied. Please ensure that while clarifying your positions you locate them within or around the theories you have studied. A personal take or a personal narrative not located within the theories you have studied may not be treated as an answer.
1. Would Eagleton’s position that literature is an ideological apparatus, be acceptable to you? Give theoretically sound agruments for you position.
2. Between Plato and Aristotle, whose position is more acceptable to you? Explain with reasons.
3. How does Saussure’s conception of language complicate the idea of language you have inherited. Explain.
4. What structuralist notions of language and ‘reality’ does Derrida complicate? How does he do that? Elucidate.
5. What are the differing ideas of the subject do Freud and Lacan inaugurate? Explain.
6. Discuss the possibilities and limitations of poststructuralist feminist thought for you as a student of English studies, and Psychology, who mostly lives and studies on parental support and has a different social history that determines your present subjecthood than that of Europe and North America.
7. How does Judith Butler problematise ‘gender and sexuality as categories of essence’? In doing so what new insights does she give into Freud’s thought? Explain.
8. How does Foucault show the relationship between discourse and power/knowledge? Does Foucault affect the way you looked at the social? Elucidate.
9. If we accept Said’s arguments on Orientalism, what political agenda does it set for you as a young undergraduate at the beginning of the twenty first century? Explain with reasons.
10. On what grounds would you argue that the condition you exist is postmodern. Delineate your argument using ideas of different postmodern thinkers you have studied.
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