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CALL FOR RESEARCH PAPERS ON FOLLOWING ANTHOLOGIES

1. Indian Drama in English: A Feminine Perspective 2. The Fictional World of Amitav Ghosh 3. The Changing Face of Diaspora in Commonwealth Literature
Editors Dr. Arvind Nawale Dr. Nibedita Mukherjee
No Contribution/Subscription fees. Papers will be accepted and published free of cost and only on basis of quality and each contributor will get a free complimentary copy from publisher

Dear All, We are glad to inform you that we are going to edit jointly following three anthologies of research papers tentatively titled as per following details. Authentic, scholarly and unpublished research papers are invited from scholars/faculty/researchers/writers/professors from all over the world for this volume. 1. Indian Drama in English: A Feminine Perspective Women have been assigned diversified roles in Indian society on one aspect she is the Adishakti, the source of all power, and on the other hand she is the virtual doormat, lying prostrate at the feet of her patidevta( hudband-god) and performing the stridharma(the duties of a wife) which led to ultimate self-effacement. This complex role of women in Indian society _ both the Grihalakshmi and the coquette have been depicted with clarity in Indian Drama in English. This section of the dramatic genre began in 1837 with Krishna Mohan Banerjees The Persecuted and since then with stalwarts like Michael Madhusudhan Dutt and Rabindranath Tagore, it achieved a height of its own. They were followed by creative souls like Manjiri Isvaran, G.V.Desani, Lakhan Dev, Pretish Nandy, Asif currimbhoy, Girish Karnard, Vijay Tendulkar, Badal Sirkar, Mahesh Dattani etc. who have all contributed profoundly to the enrichment of this literary genre. The aim of the present anthology is to present papers which study the cause of the feminine, i.e. both the female position and psychological situation as depicted in the varied plays. Papers may also considered on plays which have been written in Indian languages but were later translated into English. 2. The Fictional World of Amitav Ghosh An anthropologist trained in India, Alexandria and Oxford, Amitav Ghosh entered the fictional world with an intention of glancing backwards. His primary concern is the Diaspora and related themes such as emigration, exile, cultural displacement and transnational cultural flow. However, unlike Salman Rushdie, nation is not the only theme of Ghoshs fictional world. Rather he is concerned with the family in its various aspects (both the extended joint family and the segregated nuclear family) as the central imaginative unit. For this purpose Ghosh employs variety of narrative techniques, genres and storytelling styles to invent a neverland which again coheres to reality.

2 With Amitav Ghosh the boundary between literary study and political praxis dissolves and his fiction becomes one signifying system which dissolves the borders of narrative aesthetics and effects radical transformation of reality. The present anthology calls for papers which study the fiction of Amitav Ghosh from this varied aspects and highlight the thematic condition and character situation therein. 3. The Changing Face of Diaspora in Commonwealth Literature The Commonwealth literature shares in general an awareness of the British presence that look back at the colonial past with hatred and a sense of acute marginalization and this post colonial re-membering binds together the vast body of diversified literary production generated by these fifty-four member states of the Commonwealth of Nations. A current theme of these commonwealth narratives is the varied interpretations of the concept of Diaspora. It is a concept which originated in mythical age with the scattering of the Jews and has now obtained a new socio-political significance. Initially Diaspora implied forceful evacuation from the mother-state and a lack of assimilation in the foreign soil. So the diasporic individuals looked back with painful nostalgia towards home and failed to merge into the mainstream culture of their present habitation. This sense of marginalisation is well observed in the novels of Anita Desai, G.V.Desani, Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, J.G.Farell, Wole Soyinka and so on. But in the wake of globalization, the situation underwent a massive shift. Novels by the second wave diasporic writers such as Arundhuti Roy, Bharti Mukherjee, Kiran Desai etc. highlight this changing scenario. The present anthology desires to present the concept of the diaspora from its varied angles and calls for papers related to this issue in Commonwealth literature. Proposed Publisher: The volume will be published with an ISBN (International Standard Book Number) by a renowned publisher. Editing requirements: Paper size: A4, Font & size: Times New Roman 12, Spacing: Single line, Margin of 1 inch on all four sides. Title of the paper: bold, title case (Capitalize each word), centered. Text of the paper: justified. Font & size: Times New Roman 12. References: Please follow MLA style (Only Author-Date or Number System) strictly. Dont use Foot Notes. Instead use End Notes. Titles of books: Italics. Titles of articles from journals and books: quoted. Articles should be submitted as MS Word 2003-2007attachments only. The paper should not usually exceed 14 pages maximum, 5 pages minimum in single spacing. Each paper must be accompanied by i) A declaration that it is an original work and has not been published anywhere else or send for publication ii) Abstract of paper about 100-200 words and iii) A short bio-note of the contributor(s) indicating name, institutional affiliation, brief career history, postal address, mobile number and e-mail, in a single attachment. Please dont send more attachments. Give these things below your paper and send all these things in a separate single MS-Word attachment.

3 The papers submitted should evince serious academic work contributing new knowledge or innovative critical perspectives on the subject explored. Mode of Submission: Each contributor is advised to send full paper with brief bio-note, declaration and abstract as a single MS-Word email attachments to email addresses: nibedita.english@gmail.com up to 29th Nov. 2011. Selection Procedure: All submissions will be sent for blind peer reviewing. Final selection will be made only if the papers are recommended for publication by the reviewers. The details of the selection of your paper will be informed to you telephonically or on your email. The editor has the right to make necessary editing of selected papers for the sake of conceptual clarity and formatting. Non-selected papers will not be sent back to the contributor in any form. So, all contributors are advised to keep a copy of their submission with them. Each contributor will get a free complimentary copy from publisher but in case of joint paper, only first writer will get free copy. Plagiarism Alert: Contributors are advised to adhere to strict academic ethics with respect to acknowledgment of original ideas from others. The editors will not be responsible for any such lapse of the contributor. All submissions should be original and must be accompanied by a declaration that it is an original work and has not been published anywhere else. It will be your sole responsibility for such lapses, if any. Neither editor, nor publisher will be responsible for it.
Last date for submission: 29th Nov. 2011.

Thanks. Dr. Nibedita Mukherjee (Faculty, Dept of English, Bankura Christian College, Bankura (W.B) -722101 Cell No. 09434335848 E-Mail: nibedita.english@gmail.com Dr. Arvind Nawale (Head, Dept of English, Shivaji College, Udgir (M.S.) -413 517 Cell No. 07588390675, 09011155955 Web: http://arvindnawale.blogspot.com/

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