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SOAS LITERARY REVIEW
Call for Submissions
SOAS Literary Review (http://www.soas.ac.uk/soaslit/home.html) is a refereed
online journal edited and produced by research students
at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.
The journal seeks to provide an international forum for
research students working on humanities topics and focusing on Africa, Asia,
and the Middle East. Papers on literature, visual and
performing arts, film and media are welcome. There are also three themed
issues planned for 2005-2006.These themes, detailed below,
are meant to act as rough guidelines for anyone wishing to submit a paper.
The Editors encourage a broad interpretation of the
themes and research questions, as well as an interdisciplinary approach to
them.
SEXUALITY
How is sexuality represented in literature? How do different literary
traditions and social contexts affect representations of
sexuality? For example, what can the discussion of Asian and African
literatures add to the understanding of sexuality and its
representation?
How appropriate is it to use theoretical approaches to sexuality and gender
developed in the Western academy to discuss non-Western
literatures? Is the very concept of sexual identity too culturally specific
to be applicable to anything other than modern Western
cultural production?
How do representations of sexuality interact with systems of censorship and
expectations of propriety in different cultures?
How is the literary representation of sexuality affected by genre? To what
extent do non-literary genres, such as legal,
psychiatric, medical or religious discourses determine the language in which
sexuality is represented in both literature and
literary criticism?
LIFE-WRITING
How is the traditional, Western genre of autobiography being challenged (or
affirmed) by recent developments in life-writing?
Is there a specific genre of postcolonial life-writing? What are its
particular features and how does it intersect with other genres
of life-writing?
What is the relationship between fiction and life-writing? How is the
borderline between the two negotiated in recent life-writing?
How are the relations and representations of ethnicity and gender evolving
in life-writing?
THE MODERN, THE POSTMODERN AND THE POSTCOLONIAL
What are the possible non-Eurocentric conceptualisations of modernism?
Does modernism's elevation of the aesthetic necessarily obfuscate the
material conditions of cultural production?
How do non-western modernisms negotiate the tension between their local
contexts and the homogenising impulses of advanced
capitalism?
What is the value (if any) of postmodernism's insistence on plurality,
heterogeneity and difference, for postcolonial criticism?
Is literary postmodernism preoccupied with textuality and verbal surfaces at
the expense of referential reality? If so, how does
postmodern writing from Asia and Africa manage to engage with history?
Does postcolonial literature resist, or does it reproduce, the logic and
features of the global literary marketplace?
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The deadline for submissions has been extended to December 31 2005.
Please consult the notes for contributors on the Review website
http://www.soas.ac.uk/soaslit/contributors.htm
The Editors
SOAS Literary Review
c/o AHRB Centre for Asian & African Literatures, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street,
London WC1H 0XG
http://www.soas.ac.uk/soaslit/home.html
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European Network for Euro-African Studies
Project 2006
Transcultural Modernities: Narrating Africa in Europe INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE
Frankfurt University, Germany - June 1-3, 2006
Convenors:
Elisabeth Bekers (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
Sissy Helff (Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany) Daniela Merolla
(University of Leiden, the Netherlands)
Whereas in recent years the creative output of Africans living in Europe has
received increasing interest from the media and in
academia, little critical attention has been paid to the manner in which the
narrative modes in these Euro-African works give
expression to or are an expression of their creators' transcultural
realities. This conference responds to this need for reflection
by scrutinizing how creative work explores issues such as home, migration,
and diaspora, and how these explorations in turn
contribute to the emergence of specific modern realities. The conference
aims to bring together researchers from different areas
such as cultural and literary studies, anthropology and narratology, for an
extensive interdisciplinary exchange. We invite papers
focusing on modes of narration in Euro-African literature, film and other
media. Questions concerning transculturality and
postcolonial studies will provide other major points of entry to our
discussions. We particularly welcome papers examining these
topics at their intersection with gender, class and ethnicity. The focal
points of the conference will be: . 'Tracing Euro-African
Modernities - Of Asylum Seekers and Cosmopolitans' (addressing fieldwork and
topics such as concepts of home, inclusionary and
exclusionary practices, social, cultural and political dimensions of
migration and diaspora) . 'Modes of Narrating Africa in Europe'
(addressing topics such as unreliability, focalisation, orality,
contextualised and cognitive approaches in Euro-African fiction,
lifewriting, documentary, drama, etc.) . 'Postcolonial and Transcultural
Studies: Framing a Euro-African Future' (addressing topics
such as authenticity, ethnicity, hybridity, globalization and cultural
production)
Confirmed Keynote speakers:
Graham Huggan (University of Leeds) . Nwachukwu Frank
Ukadike (Tulane University)
Frank Schulze-Engler (University of Frankfurt) . Mieke Bal
(University of Amsterdam)
In order to encourage intensive discussions at the conference, 3,000 word
papers are requested by
1 April 2006 and will be compiled in a reader and sent to all participants
beforehand. At the conference itself, participants are
asked to briefly comment on the arguments they develop in their papers and
to elucidate their positions by responding to the other
papers. This conference aims to provide a platform for cooperation between
academic institutions across Europe and the development
of a European Network for Euro-African Studies. Enquiries and submissions
(name, affiliation, title of contribution, and abstract of
no more than 200 words) should be addressed to the conveners no later than 1
December 2005. Participants can expect a letter of
acceptance by the beginning of January.
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Conference webpage:
http://web.uni-frankfurt.de/fb10/ieas/abt/nelk/euro-afric/
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JOURNAL OF SOUTH ASIAN POPULAR CULTURE
3rd International Conference - Call for Papers
The University of Manchester, UK, Tues 27 and Weds 28 June 2006
The journal of South Asian Popular Culture (SAPC) enters its fourth year of
publication with a growing international readership and
well-received critical reception (The Times Higher Education Supplement,
22/4/2005, p.34). Building on the success of previous
international gatherings at the University of Portsmouth, UK (2002) and at
Fairfield University, USA (2003), the 3rd conference will
be hosted at the University of Manchester.
SAPC's 3rd meeting invites interdisciplinary contributions from across the
different subject disciplines in the arts, humanities and
social sciences to engage with notions of popular culture. 'South Asian
popular culture' is defined in a broad and inclusive way to
incorporate lived and textual cultures, the mass and new media, different
ways of life, and discursive modes of representation.
Central to the formation of popular cultures are articulations of the
economic, social and political spheres and the conference
especially welcomes papers that will highlight these issues.
SAPC's 3rd conference is not limited to any particular theme and invites
papers from across all areas of South Asian popular
culture, both in the subcontinent and from around the world. Contributions
are invited from academics, postgraduate students, and
from cultural practitioners (film-, radio-, television-, and web
media-makers, artists, arts personnel, cultural activists, fashion
designers, and sexuality campaigners).
Some suggested panel topics might include:
Diasporas, Identities and Globalisation
Representations of South Asians post-9/11 and -7/7
Internet South Asia
Visual Cultures
Gender and Sexuality
Film and Television
Religious Festivals
Music
Popular Literature and Theatre
Fashion
Rural and Urban Cultures
All conference papers will be invited to be submitted for consideration to
be published as peer reviewed articles in the journal.
Journal website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/14746689.asp
For further information and to send your paper abstracts of up to 500 words
please contact: Dr Rajinder Dudrah, Drama, Martin
Harris Building, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13-9PL,
UK.
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Deadline for the submission of abstracts: 28 February 2006
The 3rd SAPC conference will be hosted under the auspices of the Centre for
Screen Studies in Drama, School of Arts, Histories and
Cultures at the University of Manchester, UK. Centre for Screen Studies
website:
www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/subjectareas/drama/research/centreforscreenstudies/
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Call for Submissions: 'RED' a new anthology
of contemporary Black British poetry
Internationally renowned and award winning poet, Kwame Dawes is editing a
new collection of contemporary Black British poetry. The
theme for this exciting new anthology is 'Red'.
How do you interpret Red? Red, anyway that you see it, feel, it smell it,
taste it - this is Red, anyway you love it hate it or
covet it. What does Red mean to you? Toss it around, turn it around, pull it
apart - we want your Red poem. What can you deliver?
Red poems must be previously unpublished or published within the last two
years. (If previously published, please provide details of
who to obtain permission from.) This anthology will include new work from
established Black British poets residing inside and
outside the UK, Black poets who have made Britain their home, as well as the
fresh and exciting new poets around the country who
have recently emerged and will emerge as they explore their reddest ideas.
The Red Letter Day for your final submission is 01 April 2006.
The anthology will be published by Peepal Tree Press in 2006/2007, under
their new 'Inscribe', imprint, which will focus on
publishing new work by writers of African and Asian descent in the North and
anthologies of groundbreaking new work from Black
writers nationally.
Guidelines for submissions:
*Up to 3 poems
*Any length
*Any style
*Poets of any age or gender can submit work
*Poems must be new and previously unpublished work.
*Poems must be sent on one side of A4 only and must be 1.5 spaced. *Poems
must be on white paper only in an easily readable font
(Times /Times New Roman is suggested) and an easily readable point size (12
point suggested) *Deadline for submissions: 1 April
2006
Please send submissions as an attachment to < [log in to unmask]> And c.c.
your submission to Kadija Sesay on <kadija@peepaltree
press.com> If you cannot send your work by email, please send hard copies
to: Kadija Sesay,
Series Editor, Inscribe/Peepal Tree Press, 17 King's Ave, Leeds, LS6 1QS
Please note that work will be not returned so please do not send your only
copy
N.B. Terminology : In this context we take 'Black' to mean anyone who
considers themselves of Black African or Asian descent
including mixed race with at least one parent of Black African or Asian
descent.
Note on the editor:
Kwame Dawes is a tireless editor, poet, novelist, actor, musician,
playwright and critic. Born in Ghana, he grew up in Jamaica and studied in
Canada. He is currently Professor of English at the
University of South Carolina and where he is Distinguished Poet in
Residence, Special Advisor to the Provost on the Arts, and
Director of the South Carolina Poetry Initiative. He is widely acknowledged
as the foremost Caribbean poet of the post-Walcott
generation.
His poetry collections with Peepal Tree Press include, Progeny of Air,
Prophets, Jacko Jacobus, Requiem, Shook Foil, New and
Selected Poems. Other publications include, Wheel and Come Again (an
anthology of reggae poetry), A Place to Hide (a short story
collection) and non fiction titles, Natural Mysticism and A Far Cry from
Plymouth Rock: A Personal Narrative.
http://www.kwamedawes.com For any other queries regarding Inscribe or the
Red anthology contact:
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BOOK
Versions of Zimbabwe: New Approaches to Literature and Culture Edited by
Robret Muponde & Ranka Primorac
At a turbulent historical moment, Versions of Zimbabwe: New Approaches to
Literature and Culture considers the relationships between
Zimbabwe's creative literature, history and politics. It assumes that
literature and culture cannot be understood separately from
larger social trends; and that besides being legitimate subjects of study in
themselves, through foregrounding literary and cultural
issues, insights into the present crisis inflicting the country can be
achieved.
The book is the result of a collaboration of scholars from southern Africa
and overseas, whose work emphasises hitherto overshadowed
subjects of literature, exposing new and untried approaches to Zimbabwean
writing. The contributors focus on pluralities,
inclusiveness and the breaking of boundaries, and elucidate how literary
texts are betraying multiple versions and opinions of
Zimbabwe, arguing that only a multiplicity of opinions on Zimbabwe can do
the complexity of the society and history justice.
Individual chapters consider the works of celebrated Zimbabwean authors such
as Dambudzo Marechera and the late Yvonne Vera; and
Alexandra Fuller. Works of literature in the three major literary languages
of Zimbabwe - Shona, Ndebele and English - are examined,
alongside autobiography, history and memoir, questions of race in literature
and racial identities of Zimbabwean writers, and the
oft-neglected, arguably underrated Zimbabwean poetry.
The contributors include Annie Gagiano, Caroline Rooney, Tommy
Matshakayile-Ndlovu and Terence Ranger. The editor of the book,
Robert Muponde, is based at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa.
Ranka Primorac is a specialist in Zimbabwean literature
with wide international experience. 1779220367 280pp. 2005 Weaver Press
$32.94/?24.95
Orders:
All orders excluding N.America
African Books Collective
Unit 13, Kings Meadow, Ferry Hinksey Road, Oxford, OX2 ODP, UK
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+44 (0)1865 726686
N.America
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tel: +1 517 355 9543
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ARIKAMEDU
We have recently launched a Museum Gallery exclusively on the ancient city
of Arikamedu, seven kilometers south of Pondicherry in
south India
please visit www.arikamedu.com
Arikamedu is the only site in India which is archeologically proven to had
trade relation with Roman empire in classical times. It
is the first site where famous British archeologist Sir Mortimer Wheeler
introduced his scientific method of archeological
excavation in India. It is one of the rarest site which can cliame to have a
acultural continuity from 300 BC to 1800 AD. The asite
is seriously under the threat of vandalism from men and nature . We have
launched an intitaive to protect, preserve and promote the
rich legacy of the ancient industrial port city of Arikamedu through
Arikamedu Heriatge Society a non profit organisation . Please
visit http://www.arikamedu.com/akmd_save.htm to help us to save Ariakmedu .
I would appreciate very much if you could distribute
this information among the list members
Warm regards,
Suresh Kumar Pillai
President, Arikamedu Heritage Society
Arikamedu Road
Kakayanthope
Ariyankuppam
Pondicherry 605007, India
tel/fax: 91 413 2602910
Mobile: 91 9894507273
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MUSE INDIA
Focus and scope
Muse India is a literary e-journal with the primary objective of showcasing
Indian writings in English, and in English translation,
to a broad-based, global readership. The journal publishes both creative and
critical writings and offers a wide range of literary
forms - poetry, short fiction, essays, conversations with writers, book
reviews and the like. Bearing in mind the general readership
on the Internet, it, however, avoids highly academic articles. Besides
presenting the work of more established authors, it also
promotes talented new and young writers.
India has several well developed languages, each having a rich literary
heritage and tradition of its own. Thus, collectively,
Indian literature is quite vast in its ambit and coverage. However, only
some of this vast body of literature is available in
English and other foreign languages, and known outside India. Muse India
presents salient aspects of these Indian language
literatures, in English translation, to a discerning readership worldwide.
The e-journal takes a look at on one or two of these
literatures in each issue. While the inaugural issue had a look at Kannada
literature, the focus of the third issue was on Marathi
and Punjabi literatures. The current issue features Bengali literature of
the period 1950-2000.
Muse India editorial team comprises of distinguished writers and
academicians, who serve as Contributing Editors for various Indian
language literatures.
Muse India invites work that meets the broad objectives of the journal from
both professionals and amateurs. From authors, both
Indian and non-Indian, it welcomes contributions that focus on India. These
can be works originally written in English or translated
into English from Indian languages.
Frequency of Publication
Published from Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India, Muse India was launched in
Feb 2005 as a quarterly e-journal and four issues have
been released so far, the current one being Oct-Dec 2005 issue. However,
from Jan 2006, it will become a bi-monthly e-journal. The
current and past issues can be viewed at www.museindia.com.
Forum
The journal offers a discussion Forum for exchange of views on matters of
literary and cultural importance. Based on suggestions
received, or on their own initiative, editors of Muse India will post topics
to generate a healthy public debate.
News and views
Muse India aims not only to present vignettes of Indian literature but also
to serve as an interactive site where readers can send
feedback to the editors and post their comments in the Forum. The website
will be regularly updated with developments in the world
of letters.
Open Access Policy
Muse India provides open access to all its content to support greater global
exchange of knowledge. The free access policy, we
believe, will benefit both the writer as well as the reader. While it
affords a larger, global exposure to an author's work, it will
bring to a discerning reader the rich and varied literatures of India.
Contents of the journal can be used, with proper attribution,
only for academic and non-commercial purposes.
Membership
Muse India will be available free to everyone who registers as a member on
the journal's site. There is no membership fee.
Support
Muse India is published by "Muse India Trust", a non-profit, literary Public
Trust. The journal will be happy to receive monetary
contributions and donations from those interested in Indian literature and
wish to support the cause Muse India stands for.
Contact
All information relating to Muse India can be had from Mr. G.S.P.Rao,
Managing Editor, by sending a mail to
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The registered office of the e-journal is at:
Muse India
38, Malani Enclave
Trimulgherry
Secunderabad 500015, AP, India.
Telephone: +91 (040) 27797269
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CES VOLUNTEER INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
CES offers a limited number of volunteer programmes per year for research
students and interested individuals seeking work
experience in eco-cultural related disciplines. The selected volunteers will
have the opportunity to work both independently as well
as in a team with the guidance of on-site scientists, researchers or service
staff in the focal areas of:
. Education and skills development
. Scientific research
Further information (including details about the Volunteer Internship
Programmes) could be obtained from the web site:
www.cessrilanka.org. The website is in the process of being updated, so
please refer the attachment for the latest and more detail
information regarding the Internship Programme.
The NGO is "The Centre for Eco-Cultural Studies". Their activities are
quite diverse ranging from conservation biology,
participatory eco-cultural development, eco-cultural tourism, community
development, environmental conservation (includes wildlife
conservation and management) etc and provide research experience and
exposure in the areas of Archaeology, Anthropology, botany,
zoology, ethnology, sociology, environment studies, development studies,
ethno archaeology and speleology and many other related
fields.
The NGO is located near a World Heritage Site (Sigiriya), surrounded by some
of the important National Parks and Protected Areas of
Sri Lanka and falls within the ancient cities (cultural triangle of Sri
Lanka). Within the national parks are many villages and
they have to strike a balance between protecting nature and living for
example, human-elephant conflict. The NGO is looking into
all the areas and thus involved in diverse activities.
Please contact us for further information and clarification.
Samanthi Gunawardena
(based in Colombo)
CES Volunter internship Programme Centre for Eco-cultural Studies (CES)
Sri Lanka
http://www.cessrilanka.org
http://www.virtualexhibit.net/new/globalShowcaseTemplate.php?project_id=339®ion_id=6&industry_id=all
http://www.lk.undp.org/sgp/pages/index.htm
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AHRB Centre for Asian and African Literatures
School of Oriental and African Studies
Thornhaugh Street
Russell Square
London
WC1H 0XG
Phone: +44 (0) 20 7898 4267
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7898 4239 or 4399
www.soas.ac.uk/literatures
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