Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 10:34:32 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: Call for Papers


Hi Neela, how are you, I want to present on ANU the
feminist critique of Naxalbari and jaya Mitra's prison
memoirs, what do you think?
rinita
--- NBSaxena-AT-aol.com wrote:
> I hope some of you will be interested in the
> following conference.
> Thank you
> Neela B. Saxena
> 
> Call for Papers for Second Annual South Asian
> Literature Association 
> Conference
>   
> South Asian Literatures & Cultures: At Home and
> Abroad
> SALA 2001 at MLA, New Orleans, December 26-27, 2001
> 
> We invite abstracts as well as proposals for
> roundtable discussions and paper 
> reading sessions that explore the literary and
> artistic productions - 
> including film and popular culture - of India,
> Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri 
> Lanka, and Nepal, both within and across national
> borders. We are interested 
> in papers that examine South Asian experience with
> reference to nationhood, 
> social and religious movements, cosmopolitanism,
> diaspora, ethnicity, 
> postcolonialism, and globalization, and through such
> constructions as gender, 
> class, sexual orientation, and identity. We will
> have one special roundtable 
> discussion on the life and work of R.K. Narayan. We
> will have parallel 
> sessions on the evening of December 26, and all day
> on December 27. This 
> year's Keynote speakers are S. Shankar, scholar and
> novelist, and Siona 
> Benjamin, scholar and artist.
> 
> SALA 2001 is a one-day conference with a very
> limited number of sessions. 
> Thus, the Selection Committee will make final
> selections based only on the 
> quality and critical significance of abstracts and
> proposals. Deadline for 
> abstracts of proposed papers, sessions, and
> roundtable discussions (400 to 
> 700 words) is Monday, September 03, 2001.
> Participants will be notified by 
> September 30, 2001. Please send abstracts or session
> proposals in Word 
> Document or RTF attachment format simultaneously to
> all four committee 
> members: 
> Neela B. Saxena, Nassau Community College: 
> nbsaxena-AT-aol.com
> Shailja Sharma, DePaul University: 
> ssharma-AT-condor.depaul.edu
> Gita Rajan, Fairfield University: 
> grajan-AT-fair1.fairfield.edu
> Amritjit Singh, Rhode Island College: asingh-AT-ric.edu
> 
> All participants must be SALA members by October 15,
> 2001. Please send your 
> new membership or renewal dues to Dr. Gita Rajan,
> Secretary/Treasurer, 
> Department of English, Fairfield University,
> Fairfield, CT 06430. Membership 
> dues are $20.00 per year. SALA membership benefits
> include a subscription to 
> SOUTH ASIAN REVIEW, a peer-reviewed journal of South
> Asian literatures and 
> cultures. For further information on the journal,
> please contact Editor Dr. 
> Kamal D. Verma, Department of English, University of
> Pittsburgh-Johnstown, Johnstown, Pennsylvania.  
>   
> Hotel Information: Once again, SALA has arranged
> jointly with ANS (American 
> Name Society) excellent rates for a hotel in the MLA
> conference area. 
> Ambassador Hotel is available to SALA Conference
> participants at $69 per 
> night (S/D) from the 25th to the 30th of December
> (both days inclusive). The 
> reservation number is 888-527-5271 or 504-527-5271.
> Please mention ANS or 
> SALA to get the special rate.  Since there are only
> a limited number of rooms 
> reserved jointly for SALA and ANS, we urge all those
> planning to attend or 
> participate in SALA conference to reserve their
> rooms as early as possible. 
> 
> 


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