Dear Friends,
I would like to hold a two day National Seminar a debatable issue such as:
CAN DALIT LITERATURE BE PART OF CORE COURSE IN LITERATURE DEPARTMENTS?
Those who are interested in participating in it, please let me know on or before 28th February 2014. The seminar would be held sometime in the month of April 2014. The seminar notification is attached.
Department of English
University of Hyderabad
National Seminar on
“Can Dalit Literature
be a Core/Compulsory Course in Literature Departments?”: In Honour of Prof. M. Sridhar
on
3-4 April 2014
at ASIHSS
Building
School of
Humanities
Can Dalit Literature be
a Core/Compulsory Course in Literature Departments?
The question “Can Indian Writing
in English” be a core course?” was asked by Srinivasa Iyengar, the pioneer of
Indian English Literature studies in order to make this course a part of
English departments across the country. The same question has been raised in
the minds of many Dalit scholars while doing research on Dalit literature. Can
Dalit literature be a core course in not just English departments but also in
other regional language departments? May I raise this debate as a meeting place
to arrive at a resolution on this issue? Is it viable to have a course such as
this? Are there enough texts to be included in the course outline? Are there
sufficient numbers of theoretical texts to serve as background or to provide a
framework for such a course? Is there a
distinct history of Dalits to design such a course? Is it significant to have a
mandatory survey course on Dalits? So far this literature has been studied as
an optional course. When and where do we start the mandatory course? This debate can also throw light on
translations and translated texts such as Jina
Amucha into The Prisons We Broke,
Antarani Vasantham into Untouchable Spring etc. to mention only
two to be a part of this course.
Students, research scholars and
faculty across departments of literature are welcome to take part in this
debate. Paper readers have to travel on their own. No TA/DA will be paid to the
paper readers.
Call for Papers:
Papers are invited from post-graduate students, research
scholars and faculty across the disciplines with a request to share their views
and strengthen the efforts of the seminar. The papers presented will be brought
out in the form of a book. Hence, paper readers are requested to send
full-length papers and not a rough or a working paper. It is difficult to
manage to put the papers together after the seminar.
Submission of Full
Papers:
Contributors are requested to submit the abstracts of their
papers in about 500 words to Dr. D. Murali Manohar, Head and Associate
Professor, Department of English, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad-500 046 on
or before February 28, 2014. The selected participants will be intimated by
email.
Deadline for
submitting the full paper:
Participants are requested to send their full paper in Times
New Roman, 12 pint size in MS Word to the Coordinator either by post to the
following address Dr. D. Murali Manohar, Head and Associate Professor,
Department of English, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad-500 046 or by email
at dmmsh@uohyd.ernet.in or dmbm_vs@yahoo.co.in or dmmpsh@gmail.com before March
15, 2014. Contact Numbers: 09908569272 (M), 040-23133400 (O).
Seminar Coordinator:
Dr. D. Murali Manohar
Deputy Coordinator: Dr.
Telugu Sireesha
Dr. D.Murali Manohar
Head and Associate Professor
Department of English
University of Hyderabad
Hyderabad-500 046
09908569272
04023133400
dmmpsh@gmail.com
dmbm_vs@yahoo.co.in
