Theme: DISCOURSE OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN DALIT LIFE NARRATIVES
Organized by: St. Thomas College, Kozhencherry, Kerala
Date: 3 December 2014
Dalit life narratives are vivid testimonios of human rights violations and emergent voices on the nature of “Dalit personhood” in the Indian public sphere. While human rights is the panorama to articulate and address the problems of suffering, particular forms of suffering might generate specific forms of narrative within this language of rights. Dalit life narratives situate personal and collective suffering within a larger discourse of human rights.
While it explicitly references conditions of atrocity in India, it also develops a notion of the human subject within multiple contexts of suffering. The seminar proposes the reading of Dalit life narratives to explore their sociological, formal and aesthetic properties, in order to investigate how the genre generates a discourse of human rights and reveals the construction of an abject human subject both denied of his or her human rights, seeking to advance rights claims.
Full papers are invited on these possible domains related to the broad theme of the seminar
- Human Rights
- Intersection of Caste, Class, Gender, Ethnicity, Religion, Language
- Discourses of Nation
- Narrative Voice and Agency
- Exoticism and Canonization
- Subjectivity, Representation and Narrative
- Texts, Traditions, Translations
- History, Memory and Literature
- Literature of Resistance
- Epiphanies of Social Protest
- Subaltern Consciousness, Assertion and Identity
- Mediums of Cultural Contestation
- Other Related Themes
Send in your full papers to [email protected]
Last date for full papers: On or before 25 November 2014
Notification of acceptance of full papers: 27 November 2014
Papers will be published in book form with ISBN
Registration Fees for Participants (paper presenters included): Rs 200/- (covers 1 lunch and 2 tea with snacks)
Publication Charges for Paper Presenters: 500/-
Registration fees and paper publication charges should be remitted on or before 30 November 2014.
Details of remittance will be intimated to paper presenters along with the notification of acceptance
of papers.