In studying the work of the medieval Scottish makars, the consideration of the relationship between Scotland and England is a crucial part of establishing a distinctly Scottish expression of nationhood. Though there is much to discuss regarding the tensions that arise between these two countries in particular, this panel aims to explore the notion of difference within the British Isles on a broader scale, encouraging the study of resistance to the English literary hegemony, as articulated by voices of other bordering nations.
Since his death in 2004, Nick Joaquin—National Artist for Literature of the Philippines—has left readers and scholars with a body of literature which has yet to receive innovative and incisive critical attention.
Ecological responses to colonialist legacies have emerged as a form of economic nationalism, simultaneously, representing renewable natural resources and expressing an authentic identity, disconnected from the colonizer. Often, such an eco-renaissance sells the former colony as a tourist destination, positing a purified form of Nature to contrast the colonizer’s urban identity. Upon closer examination, however, sustainable ecology is a nexus of cultural and economic forces. Ireland’s present reforestation project, for instance, seeks to re-create the forests of oak and yew that used to cover the island.
Aristocratism and Authoritative Politics in Behn’s Oroonoko: The Existential and Socio-political Semiotics of Death and Torture
CITY, SPACE AND LITERATURE
(Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry, Vol 3 No 2)
Imperial expansion in the late nineteenth century brought the phenomenon of the modern urban metropolis to the peripheral colonies. Urban modernism was appropriated in the discourse of settler colonialism in distinct and diverse ways. In the context of the colonial, the ‘urban’ and ‘modern’ opened up heterogeneous places of cultural contact which facilitated complex formulations of race and class along the lines of socio-economic, political and aesthetic categories.
This panel is for NeMLA's annual convention at Baltimore from 23-26 March, 2017.
The term 'Anglophone' of course means 'English-speaking', but the question is: Which English? Whose English? How far English is that English? Is English merely the master's tongue? Why is English used in the way it is used in a certain Anglophone literary text? When and why does a non-native-English-speaker decide to write in English? What are the social, cultural and political baggage attached to the use of this language?
Concept Note and Call for Articles for E-QUAL News Issue 12 ( September 2016)
E-QUAL News: Bi-Monthly Online Newsletter-Magazine of EU-India Project E-QUAL
CFP: Speculative Finance/Speculative Fiction (Edited Collection)
David M. Higgins and Hugh Charles O’Connell, co-editors
Call for Papers - Ilha do Desterro´s Thematic Issue: Posthumanism