[Reader-list] [Announcements] Call for Papers on PARTITION AND MIGRATION

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Call for Papers on PARTITION AND MIGRATION

Papers are solicited for a book that seeks to
connect the different facets of partition
violence to histories of migration and relocation
within and across the nation-states of India and
Pakistan as well as to the West. For many
survivors, the partition of 1947 remains the
defining moment of trauma that marks their lives
and memories. In recent years, historians,
activists, and literary scholars have recovered
stories of survivors of partition violence in
order to understand its human side and the
multiple dimensions of the ways in which the
"partitioned subject" reconstituted him/herself
in relation to the violence. This book seeks to
complicate such stories in order to examine the
ways in which forms of violence arising from the
conflicts between "homeland" and the nation
states' regulatory practices concerning issues of
domicile, nationality, citizenship, ethnicity and
language impacted the process of migration
itself. How do such forms of violence mediate the
afterlives of migrants in places that are marked
by new pressures of differences, hopes and
possibilities? What do they speak about the
failures of nation and home? How do the
mediations of gender account for the failures and
possibilities of their new homes and nations? The
aim of this book is to bring together essays that
explore the ways in which representational forms
such as literature, film, media, theatre,
testimonies and oral histories negotiate these
and other related questions. The book will also
examine the interventions that such
representations may make in existing opinion on
the subject.

Please submit proposals (250-300 words) for
essays, along with a title, by November 15th,
2004 to Nandi Bhatia and Anjali Gera (e-mail
addresses given below).
Anjali Gera
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology
Kharagpur 721 302

Nandi Bhatia
University of Western Ontario
Canada

Email: agera_99 at yahoo.com, nbhatia2 at uwo.ca

source: South Asia Citizens Wire / Harsh kapoor
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