CALL FOR PAPERS
Issue No. 1
December 2019
“Postcolonialism and After:
Re-negotiating Transnational Studies”
The
essential contention of this volume is embedded in a long-drawn discussion and
debate with scholars spread across the United Kingdom, Poland and Australia. In
the conferences organised by Bankura University in collaboration with
associations and universities based in UK and Australia, it was possible to
recognise the gradual depletion of postcolonial studies in literature
departments in the Euro-American academies and the consequent emergence of
transnational studies as the new format of a revisionary discourse. Christian
Moraru in his article “Re-figuring the Postcolonial: Transnational Challenges”
(ARIEL, 28:4. 1997), while noting the exhaustion of postcolonial model, calls
for a “theoretical retooling in the wake of socio-cultural and political redeployments
of late twentieth century”. In the continuing spate for the overarching
postcolonial theoretical production, it finally merged into being another form
of foundational discourse which it inceptually contested and challenged.
The
post-Cold War era, the gradual rise of Asia in economic and political domains
and the stronghold of TNCs and MNCs across the world largely rendered the
discourse of empire almost obsolete. It was felt that a new form of cultural
conversation was necessary in the context of a global world order. Thieme’s
project itself at one point of time tried to inflect on the idea of
“transvaluation”. In course of some of our post-conference
discussions with academicians from UK and Australia, we thought about doing a
new project on “transnationalism”. Critics working on transnationalism try
to show how local or regional modernities move into a transnational
environment. Dagnino comments that major institutes worldwide promote the study
of representation of transnational culture and communities. This confluential
nature of culture not only critiques the dichotomous nature of nation-state,
but also tries to reshape the so-called national collective imaginaries. This
cosmopolitan vision in the age of transnational political, social, economic and
cultural processes, ensures that the dominant postcolonial discourses come to
be radicalized and disrupted.
This
issue of the journal will therefore address the newly emergent and vastly
divergent area of transnationalism and transnational literatures and invites
articles on the same.
Submission Deadline: 30 November 2019
Email for submission of Abstracts /
Full Papers / Queries: lyceumejournal@gmail.com
For submission guidelines and further
information please visit lyceumejournal.eazyclasses.com/
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