INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE

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Indian Society for Commonwealth Studies
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Postcolonial literature (variously termed as Commonwealth Literature or New Literatures in English) started with the examination of literature produced under the influence of colonizers during the colonial rule, but has expanded into a multi-disciplinary engagement covering even the literatures produced in settler colonies of yore. The colonized-colonizer paradigm has been transferred to the ruling structures within the freed countries to address the plight of the subaltern. The ideology of postcolonialism has impacted other ideologies like Marxism, Feminism and Nationalism besides re-writing concepts like diaspora, subjectivity, etc. There is the emerging perception that the colonized phase needs to be viewed as a negotiation which developed hybrid positions on both sides like any other normal historical phenomenon. We have reached a stage where there is talk of post-postcolonial phase. Now is the appropriate time to debate all these developments and variations and assess the fine nuances of theory vis-à-vis politics involved.

conference website: http://iscs2015.wordpress.com/

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