Call for Papers

Lyceum

An Annual Peer-Reviewed International e-Journal of the Department of English 

(ISSN 2582-3035)

Entangled: Takes on Trans- Today, in Literature and Culture

(Vol. 2 August 2023)

Web-Page Link: https://www.bankurauniv.ac.in/temp-file-dtls/lyceumejournal/2372

“Trans-”, a prefix of excess, unmake, radicality and new beginnings derived from Latin “trans” denoting “across”, signifies the urge to test, un-think, re-draw and finally, cross as also smudge boundaries and the conditions of confinement and exclusions they might represent.  Contemporary realities and receptions come screened through technologies of speed, genres of emergency and the scream of loyalty to alleged singulars – of identities, icons, nationalities and market-brands. Trans-factors as bearer of alternative possibilities yet lurk, spill into, and re-form – discourses of the trans-/nation, as theorized by Bill Ashcroft, of translation, as contended by Harish Trivedi and Susan Basnett, and of disciplines and media, as proposed by Ranjan Ghosh.

To what extent do trans-factors like travel, exile, myriad socio-historical others mapped in matrices of language, gender, discipline, media, environment wounded around the developmental or, the human nudged to brink by machines and the viral, perform the unrest of imagined alterities? How to read trans- as a register in the context of open endings, or the politics of remembrance and forgetting, in literature, histories and popular culture? Would it write back to the sly compulsion of complicity in post-al discourses, could it become the Babel-hinge to forging difficult solidarities? If so, how?

 This issue of Lyceum invites original research papers, also reviews of books and films on “Entangled: Takes on Trans- Today, in Literature and Culture” which may engage with, but may not be limited to, the following sub-themes:

     Travel, transfusion, exile and expatriates in literature and histories

     The craft of forgetting and memorializing in literature and histories

     Nationing and the trans-nation

     History, and historiographies, as rehearsals for the present      

     Genres of emergency

     The nature of plastics, the plastic age

     Technologies of speed, social media and digital society

     Popular culture and cultural studies

     Digital literature, literary data

     Machines and thinking

     Translation and heteroglossia

     Reading the pandemic

     Reading toxicity and pollution

     Literature across frontiers

     Testimony and trauma

     Surveillance capitalism

Submission Guidelines: 

• We accept original and unpublished research papers (4500-5000 words). 
• The abstract should not be of more than 200 words and the author’s bio not more than 100 words. 
• Reviews of books and films should be within 1000 words. 
• Kindly follow the MLA 9 stylesheet. For reference, please check : 

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formattin...

Submit your papers and reviews in word doc format only at lyceum@bankurauniv.ac.in.

Last date for submitting full length papers : 18th June, 2023