Call for Papers: Proposed Edited Book

Revisiting Ghare Baire

Edited by Md Rezaul Haque (Islamic University, Bangladesh) and Gillian Dooley

(Flinders University, South Australia)

The year 2016 marks the first centenary of the publication of Ghare Baire (The Home and the World) by Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941). Barring Gora (1910), it is perhaps the only work of fiction by Tagore that has received sustained critical attention from scholars all over the world ever since its publication. The novel (as well as its film adaptation by Satyajit Ray in 1984) has been read from a wide range of perspectives. To mark the hundredth anniversary of its appearance, we intend to bring out a volume of (previously unpublished) essays focusing on the different aspects of the work, including but not limited to:

• Bildungsroman and feminism
• ecocritical concerns
• feminism/the woman question and nation
• film/theatrical adaptation
• feudalism, the new elite and nation
• imagining the nation
• Indian modernity
• narratological issues
• representational politics
• the question of (non-)violence
• translation
• treatment of history
• Victorian values

The editors are in touch with several international publishers and have received initial expressions of interest in the project.

We invite 300-500 word proposals along with a two-page CV by 12 September 2016. Please indicate in your proposal whether you expect to include illustrations in your paper, and if so the likely number.

Completed papers of 6000-7000 words are due 30 March 2017. For inquiries and proposals, please contact Gillian (gillian.dooley@flinders.edu.au) or Reza (rezmy19@gmail.com).