CFP: New Readings in the Literature of British India, c.1780-1947 edited
collection (9/1/06 abstracts, 2/1/07 essays)

Does a queer theory reading of Ackerley’s Hindoo Holiday liberate or
reinscribe this thinly-fictionalised memoir from its colonial
context(s)? Does a perception of the unintended, unwelcome, even
insurgent Indian reader haunt the early short fiction of Rudyard
Kipling? Does a reading of the debate raging over the 1857 Matrimonial
Causes Act reshape our understanding of Flora Annie Steel’s ‘Mutiny’
novel, On the Face of the Waters? Is the imaginative and ideological
‘location’ of Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable Bloomsbury rather than
Punjab? How does a reading of the reception and publication history of
Fanny Parkes’ Wanderings of a Pilgrim reflect the British debate between
Anglicist and Orientalist thinking? And who were Eliza Fay’s intended
readers?

New Readings provocatively invites its contributors to newly interrogate
and contest established readings of canonical texts, as well as offer
new readings of critically neglected works. Contributors are encouraged
to interpret the term ‘literature’ as broadly as they wish, including
within its permeable boundaries both fiction and non-fiction, verse and
prose, essay and memoir, drama and travel writing. As such, each essay
in the collection should offer a close and stimulating new reading of a
specific literary work. Contributors are free to adopt whatever literary
critical perspective they feel will be most productive in offering a new
reading of their chosen work, but they must offer a sustained close
reading of their chosen text. This volume will aim to demonstrate the
rich, conflicting and often coextensive diversity of interpretation
opened up by the concept of ‘new readings’ of, and in, the literature of
British India from a variety of critical and heuristic positions.

Please register your interest in this project by sending an abstract of
c.500 words and a brief CV by the deadline of 1 September 2006 to the
editor, Dr Shafquat Towheed at [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> with the heading ‘Literature of British
India’. Accepted contributors will have until 1 February 2007 to submit
their essays, which should ordinarily be between 10,000 – 12,000 words
in length and should conform to MLA guidelines (citations in parentheses
and a list of works cited). This book has been contracted by Ibidem
Press to appear in its ‘Studies in English Literatures’ series and it is
anticipated that publication will be in the summer of 2007 (in time for
the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise). Contributors will retain the
copyright to their essays and will be entitled to publish them
elsewhere. As a paperback publication, it will be able for adoption on
undergraduate and graduate courses.


Dr Shafquat Towheed

Institute of English Studies, University of London and The Open University

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