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Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 11:12:43 EDT
Subject: Call for Papers



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Subject: SALA Call for Papers

CALL FOR PAPERS

South Asian Liiterary Association (SALA) Third Annual Meeting, New York City, 


December 26-27, 2002

"The South Asian Imagination: Versions and Subversions"

Deadline for abstracts: September 30, 2002

We invite you to submit proposals for individual papers, panels, or
roundtable discussion sessions for the Third Annual Meeting of the
South Asian Literary Association (SALA), an allied organization of the
MLA.  The meeting, which will be held concurrently with the MLA Annual
Convention in New York City, will take place at a hotel very near the
MLA convention hotels in order to facilitate your attendance at both
conferences.

We welcome proposals on the work of writers of South Asian backgrounds
from all over the globe, at home and abroad, as they face the new realities
of globalization, race, nationalism, gender and sexuality, ethnicity,
caste, and class, among other variables.  We especially welcome proposals, 
both
intra-and inter-disciplinary, on the following topics:

* Borders and Boundaries: nationalisms, cosmopolitanisms, inter-South
  Asian relations, globalities, ethnicities, diasporic crossings, and
  liminalities

* Secularism, spirituality, religion, and fundamentalism

* Politics and ethics, war and peace

* Conjunctures, disjunctures, and differences; insiders and outsiders

* Cultural identity and representation

* Colonial and postcolonial discourse; colonial and postcolonial
  representations of India

* Technology and the new millennium

* Literature and popular/consumer culture, the visual and plastic arts,
  cinema, music, transitional and translational genres

* South Asian literary traditions

* Indian and Western epic and dramatic traditions

* South Asian writing in English and in indigenous languages;
  vernacularization of English:  Mulk Raj Anand, Raja Rao, R.K. Narayan, 
Salman
  Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, and others

* Theory, practice, pedagogy

* V. S. Naipaul as novelist and cultural critic

Please submit 300-500 word proposals (either via postal service or in
the body of an email message) to  the conference co-chairs and the Secretary/ 


Treasurer. 
  Interested participants are encouraged to join SALA, an allied organization 


of the MLA. SALA also publishes the peer reviewed journal South Asian Review. 


Selected abstracts from the conference will be published in SAR.  All 
inquiries about SALA membership should be directed to the Secretary 
Treasurer.  

Cynthia Leenerts
Department of English
Rome 760
George Washington University
Washington, DC 20052
<caleen-AT-gwu.edu>

and

Harveen Mann
Department of English
Loyola University Chicago
6525 N. Sheridan Road
Chicago, IL  60626
<hmann-AT-luc.edu>

and

  Lopamudra Basu
  Secretary/ Treasurer, SALA.
<lopabasu-AT-aol.com> 





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