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Arun Joshi (Call for Essays)
| Call for Papers Date: | 2011-09-10 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2011-07-09 |
| Announcement ID: |
186400 |
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Arun Joshi:
Avant-Garde, Existentialism, and the West
(Essay Collection)
Although Arun Joshi (1939-1993) is often hailed as a
‘prominent’ English writer within Indian literary circles, his work received little or no attention outside of India. This may be surprising given Joshi’s own diasporic experience, the imprints of Western literature in his writing, and most significantly, how the image of the West configures as the dominant trope of ‘intervention’ and ‘interruption’ in his complex and convoluted narration of India. By and large, the existing literature on Joshi pays an undue emphasis to his ‘intentions’ to purge India from Western contamination (eg. ‘Indianising English’) and the perils of modernisation. This approach categorically undermines the complex, contorted, and even the contrapuntal reception of the West in Joshi’s novels that cannot be reduced to simple-minded binarisms or politics of essentialism(s). The aim of our collection is to move away from this one-sided, in that sense, Indo-centric reading of Joshi, and to uncover the hidden sites of complicity and collusion between India and the West that is proper to much of Joshi’s own biographical-voyage between the two worlds. In particular, we invite papers that reflect, but are not restricted to, the following themes:
• Joshi as a diasporic writer;
• The place of Joshi in the English Indian novel; Joshi as avant-garde ‘figure’ and a ‘minor writer’;
• Joshi as a bridge between the ‘old’ and the ‘new’ generation of Indian English writers;
• The language and narrative techniques of Joshi;
• Colonial experience and the place of West in Joshi’s novel;
• Critique of India and tradition in Joshi’s novels;
• Joshi’s ‘postcolonial existentialism’;
• Comparative readings of Arun Joshi with any of the following Western literary figures (and their texts): Albert Camus, T.S. Eliot, Joseph Conrad, Jean Paul Sartre, and Franz Kafka.
Please send proposals (300-400 words) with a clearly defined argument to Pavan Kumar Malreddy pavan.malreddy@phil.tu-chemnitz.de by September 01, 2011.
Please see our website for a full-length description of this CFP: https://sites.google.com/site/joshicfp/
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