The Department of English, Ramakrishna Mission Residential College (Autonomous), Narendrapur is all set to organize a ONE-DAY STUDENTS SEMINAR on: POSTCOLONIALISM NOW: REASSESSING AMBIVALENT DISCOURSE(S) The relation between the coloniser and the colonised is no longer seen in postcolonial theory as representing the simple hierarchy – that of an apparently superior, enviable, yet morally bankrupt “master”, pitted against an inferior, culturally impoverished or exotically ‘otherised’ “subject”/”slave”. In a context of hybridity, the relationship is a two-way process. It produces a mixed sense of a simultaneous blessing and a curse, wherein “alterity” becomes an ambivalent term through the lens of which we can better address the grey areas between these traditional binaries. Papers of about 2,000 words are invited from undergraduate and postgraduate students of different colleges and universities by 9th April, 2014. Abstracts about 300 words should be should be sent to suvankar88@gmail & sambuddha.puspendu@gmail or deposited in person at the department on or before 31st March, 2014. A suggestive but not exhaustive list of broad headings under which the issues likely to be raised in the seminar are given below: 1. Ambivalence: ambiguous ways in which the coloniser and the colonised see one another. 2. Colonial Education and Knowledge-structures: the process by which the colonial power assimilates the colonial subject. 3. Diaspora: voluntary or enforced migration of native peoples from their homelands brought about by the colonial endeavour. 4. Essentialism: the idea of ‘what’ constitutes a race, a culture or an ethnicity. 5. Writing after the colonial moment. 6. Postcolonial translation. 7. Mapping and unmapping native spaces in travel literature.
Posted on: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 17:26:06 +0000
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