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BEYOND PARTITION: Mediascapes and Literature in Post-colonial India,

Pakistan and Bangladesh
deadline for submissions: October 30, 2016
full name / name of organization:
Roshni Sengupta/ Leiden University
contact email:
rosh.sengupta@gmail.com (mailto:rosh.sengupta@gmail.com)
BEYOND PARTITION: Mediascapes and Literature in Post-colonial India, Pakistan and Bangladesh
Editors
Nukhbah Taj Langah (Associate Professor at Forman Christian College University, Lahore, Pakistan
Roshni Sengupta (Lecturer, South Asian Studies, University of Leiden, The Netherlands)
Concept Note
The proposed edited volume would attempt to bring together scholars, commentators and practitioners from India,
Pakistan and Bangladesh in order to address questions concerning the post-colonial development of landscapes of film
and media as well as literature in South Asia. We expect contributors to explore not only the post-Partition relationship
between India, Pakistan and Bangladesh but also how they associate themselves as a broader South Asian community. It
also aims at shifting beyond genre-specific borders to look closely at post-Partition developments and towards the future
of the sub-continental neighbours, with two sections focusing on literature and mediascapes. We expect to articulate
arguments about the affective genealogy of literary accomplishments as well as the growth of the varied strands of the
media and sociological, cultural and anthropological responses towards both. The key objective of this volume, therefore,
is to move beyond 1947 and 1971 Partitions, to address how people have felt after Partition, how have they moved on
and how are they associating with their counterparts after this political division. The borders and official policies and
narratives have prevented this and our objective is also to continue this dialogue through academic research. The
proposed volume aims to deconstruct these complexities by applying an interdisciplinary approach. The proposed book
would accept paper proposals focusing on creative responses (novels, short stories, poetry, art, folk literature) and
media studies (film, songs, drama) from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. The papers can be based on, but are not
restricted to the following themes:
Gender and sexuality
Construction of the Other
Representation of War
Nostalgia and separation
Progressive cinema
Stereotypes in radio and television programming
The concept of war/ peace
The disregarded cultural links
Please send your abstracts to Roshni Sengupta rosh.sengupta@gmail.com (mailto:rosh.sengupta@gmail.com) and
Nukhbah Langah nukhbahlangah@gmail.com (mailto:nukhbahlangah@gmail.com) by October 30th, 2016. The complete
papers are required to be submitted by Spring 2017. The final deadlines will be announced once the abstracts are
selected for this volume. This volume is being prepared for South Asia Series by Sage Publications produced by South
Asia University, New Delhi.

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