[INDOLOGY] Fwd: ECSAS 2020 in Vienna: CFP for "Vernacular Literature, Migrant Experience and Resettlement in South Asian Cities"

[Dominik Wujastyk]

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From: Nicola Pozza <nicola.pozza at unil.ch>
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 at 11:45
Subject: ECSAS 2020 in Vienna: CFP for "Vernacular Literature, Migrant
Experience and Resettlement in South Asian Cities"
To: indology-owner at list.indology.info <indology-owner at list.indology.info>


Dear Colleagues,

Prof. Sadan Jha (CSS, Surat) and I cordially invite you to submit an
abstract for our panel at the next ECSAS to be held in Vienna, from 29 July
to 1 August 2020. You will find below the title and abstract of our panel.
You can also find it and submit your paper proposal on the following page:
https://ecsas2020.univie.ac.at/panels/htty6/
<https://ecsas2020.univie.ac.at/panels/iu8uk/>. The submission instructions
are available here:
https://ecsas2020.univie.ac.at/paper-submission-guidelines/. The deadline
is *November 17, 2019*.

If you have any question, please feel free to write to Prof. Sadan Jha (
sadanjha at gmail.com) or myself (nicola.pozza at unil.ch). We will be glad to
answer your question or read your proposal.

Looking forward to reading or seeing some of you next year in Vienna.

Nicola Pozza

Vernacular Literature, Migrant Experience and Resettlement in South Asian
Cities

This panel invites papers which explore literary approaches to migration,
dislocation and resettlement in the megacities of South Asia. The panel is
particularly interested in fictions and autobiographical narratives in
vernacular languages and coming from the post Emergency period.
id: htty6
Convenors:
*· Nicola Pozza* *University of Lausanne (Lausanne, Switzerland)*
*· Prof. Sadan Jha* *Centre for Social Studies (Surat, India)*
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Long Abstract

Migration from villages and small towns to megacities is a crucial aspect
of contemporary South Asia. Leaving aside sociological, political or
economic perspectives, this panel aims at analysing migrant experiences
through the lens of fictional and autobiographical narratives. Besides its
rarity, by privileging the literary, we intend to engage with the
subjectivities, detailed profiling of migrant characters and their lives.
We wish to anchor upon fictional and autobiographical narratives or
experiential writings from vernacular languages, primarily but not
exclusively Hindi. As number of studies dealing with migration and
resettlement have centred around the Partition of India, this panel invites
contributors to chart a relatively ignored period: post Emergency phase of
the contemporary. This panel aims at bringing into conversation scholars
interested in themes such as (though not restricted to) expectations and
aspirations of migrants; effects of dislocation on their everyday life;
negotiation of social, religious and economic identity in the new urban
setting; ways of dealing with the notion of “informality” in literature;
migrant ‘production of space’ (Lefebvre); representation of life in
megacities; literary strategies adopted by narrators; literary construction
of events, subjectivities and approaches to urban experiences of migration.
Papers creatively mobilising inter-disciplinary perspectives and methods
(i.e. combining anthropological and literary methods) are particularly
invited. While this panel will focus on Indian megacities and Hindi
literature, contributions that engage with other South Asian megapolis and
other languages are also welcome.
<https://whav2.aussereurop.univie.ac.at/papersubmission/submit/htty6>

*****
Dr Nicola Pozza
Senior Lecturer (Hindi, Indology)
Faculty of Arts
Department of Slavic and South Asian Studies (SLAS)
UNIL-Chamberonne
Anthropole
1015 Lausanne
Switzerland

Ph.: +41 (0)21 692 30 10
http://www.unil.ch/slas


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