ANGLOPHONE INDIA AND ITS DIASPORA(s)

International Conference on Indian Literature - Univerity of the Saarland, Saarbrucken, August 2002.

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1. Keynote: Meenakshi Mukherjee (Hyberabad):"Whose Centre, Which Periphery? (archive)

2. Keynote: Timothy Brennan (Minneapolis): "The Southern Intellectual: The Indian Diaspora and Interwar Europe" (CD-ROM READY & VIDEO ON DEMAND)

3. Paper Session 1:

Harish Trivedi (Delhi) "Postcolonial Centre, Postmodern Periphery: Reversing a Discursive Hierarchy"

Makarand Paranjape (Delhi) "Indian Anglophony, Diasporan Polycentricism and Postcolonial Futures."

(CD-ROM READY & VIDEO ON DEMAND)

4. Paper session 2.

Vijay Mishra (Perth): "Traumatic memory, Mourning and V.S. Naipaul"

Chandrashekar Bhat (Hyderabad) "Continuity and Change in the perceptions of Indianness: Issues of Identity among the Indians and the Indian Diaspora."

Tabish Kahir (Copenhagen) "Travel and Immigration: An Aspect of the Implied Politics of the Discourse of Diaspora."

5. Paper Session 3.

Sujala Singh (Southampton) "Postcolonial children."

Michael Walling (London) "Inter-cultural Tempests -India, Mauritious, London"

Silvia Albertazzi (Bologna) "Salman Rushdie in New York:Looking at the Centre with Furious Eyes."

6. Paper Session 4.

Keya Ganguly (Minneapolis) "A Signature of the Visible: Satyajit Ray and Cinematic Modernism"

Rachel Dwyer (London) "Indian Film in Britain."

7. Keynote: Dietmar Rothermund (Heidelburg) "Mahatma Gandhi in South Africa: A Voice from the Periphery. (CD-ROM READY & VIDEO ON DEMAND)

8. Paper Session 5.

Girish Karnad (London) "Colonialism and Culture"

Konrad Meisig (Mainz) "Modern Narrative Technique in the 'Panchatantra': An Indian Contribution to World Literature.

9. Paper Session 6.

Udaya Narayana Singh (Mysore): Another India: Voices from the Periphery.

Vilashini Cooppan (Yale) "National Longing, Diasporic Form: Indian Writing in the 'New Africa'.

Mohan Gautam (Leiden): "Reconstruction of a Cherished Memory of the Home Country: The Caribbean Indian Diaspora between Ideals and Practice."

10. Paper Session 7.

Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan (Amherst): "Diaspora, Hybridity and Pedagogy"

Rukmini Bhaya (Delhi) "Postcolonial Genre: Does the Literary Review belong to the Centre or the Periphery."

11. Panel Session: "Transcultural Perspectives on Centres and Peripheries." Dwyer, Gupta, Karnad, Krishnan, Trivedi.