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From: Nicola Pozza <nicola.pozza@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@list.indology.info <indology-owner@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/. 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@gmail.com) or myself (nicola.pozza@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)

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.


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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