Reminder to the Participants

Welcome to the International conference on 'Traditions of Dissent in Subcontinental Literatures and Cultures' (15-17 Oct 2012) at Central University of Kerala, Kasaragod, India.

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Notice 1.

All those whose abstracts are accepted should send the following by 05 October 2012:

1. Full paper as MS word document using MLA (Style 6) to dclclai2012@gmail.com with the name of the author followed by the title of the paper in the subject line of the email. Also cc it to koyippally@gmail.com also.

2. Registration amount in full as DD drawn in favor of "THe Head of the Department of Comparative Literature, Central University of Kerala, Kasaragod" payable at Kasaragod.

The participants will get modest non A/C accommodation in hotels booked for the purpose for the days of the conference. Additional stay / facilities will have to be met by the participants themselves.

All registered participants will be served breakfast and dinner at the hotel, and vegetarian lunch and tea at the venue of the conference. Transportation from the hotel to the venue of the conference is arranged.

As the conference is an intensive exercise and is meant to be a forum for active interaction between scholars in the field, the conference participants are expected to be available in the conference for the three full days. The participants who prefer to be present only  part-time, and/or present papers in absentia will not be given participation certificate.

131. Sareena Subba

Abstract 131. Sareena Subba

An Introduction to Oral Epic of the Limbus

Limbu is one of the indigenous inhabitants of Sikkim. The Limbu community in Sikkim has a strong oral tradition, with most of the Limbu epics and scriptures being transmitted orally from generation to generation. For instance, ‘Mundhum’ is the oral epic of Limbu people which is vital to every Limbu from a layman to Phedangmas (priests). The epic is recited during the performance of rites and rituals. The epic contains cosmology, mythology,legends, stories, oracles, and history of Limbu people. Mundhum is the source of inspiration, information, and enlightenment and way of life , customs, and rites-de- passage are guided by it. They also provide the insight into the inner complexity of Limbus.

 This paper provides a glimpse of Limbu language spoken in Sikkim as well as attempts to discuss the various aspects of the epic.

130. D Bellarmen

Abstract 130. D. Bellarmen 

Good fences make good neighbors: fences to safe guard Indian culture and tradition 

The growth of World Literature is spreading rapidly.  Americans and Indians read the same fiction whereas both are far apart in their standard of living. Though kind of fiction  mends the walls separating the countries it also cracks down their culture and tradition.  They beam vivid images of violence, hunger, need and exploitation straight into children’s minds specially.  Hence,  India  needs good fences that prepare the generation to establish themselves for the tradition, of the tradition and by the tradition. The paper traces the values of tradition and culture of Children Literature in Ancient India, modern India and in contemporary India. 

ABSTRACTS FOR THE CONFERENCE

Selected abstracts

The following abstracts are tentatively selected by the Review Committee for the purpose for the conference. For the final confirmation, the authors are requested to send their full papers (MLA 6 Style) to Dr. Joseph Koyippally, Head, Department of Comparative Literature, Central University of Kerala, Kasaragod, Kerala 671 123 along with the due registration fee by 5 October 2012.

The authors are requested to kindly send the paper as soft copy to dclclai2012@gmail.com. We look forward to original papers of 20 minute duration in presentation. This will be approximately 6000 words including bibliography and notes. 

Registration is meant for those who present their papers in the conference. The registration fee is: 

USD 150/- for foreign participants
INR 1500/- for Indian participants
INR 1000/- for research scholars
INR 600/-  PG students

The registration amount should be sent as DD in favour of ‘Head, Department of Comparative Literature, Central University of Kerala, payable at Kasaragod' latest by October 5, 2012. 

The Vidyanagar transit campus, where the conference is being organized, is located at Kasaragod, the northern most district of Kerala. CUK is  a very new university and is in the fourth year of its inception. We can only arrange modest accommodation for the registered participants at the hotels near the university.   You can alight at Kasaragod (5 km away from the Vidyanagar Campus of CUK) by train. From the Railway station, prepaid autos (Rs. 60) are available to the Central University at Vidyanagar. Mangalore airport is about 60 km away from the Vidyanagar Campus of CUK. 

The names of the authors are arranged in alphabetical order without honorific titles:

Abdul Samad. K,  | Asst. Professor, Dept. of English, PSMO College, Tirurangadi, Malappuram | Archetypes restructured; the creation of dissent in Pathmarajan’s movies.

Abdullah Abdul Hameed,  | MPhil, CES/SLLCS JNU | The Dance of Dissenting Spirits: Theyyam Texts and Contexts

Abitha Balagopalan,  | Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Vimala College, Thrissur | Resistance and Resilience: Emergence of Self in the Selected Narratives of M.T Vasudevan Nair

Ajay S Sekher,  | Assistant Professor of English, S S University Tirur Centre | Land of Demons: Sara Joseph’s Bhoomirakshasam as a Subaltern Critique of Theatre and Life

Ameen Parray | Assistant Professor English,  North Campus Delina, University of Kashmir | Expressions of Political Dissent: in the Poetry of Mahmud Darwesh

Amith Kumar P.V.  | Associate Professor and Head, Comparative Literature, EFLU | The Dialogic Discordance and the ‘Dissent’ of ‘Indian’ Vernacular

Anand KB | Associate Professor, English Department, VTM NSS College, Dhanuvachapuram, Trivandrum | Comparison between Mulk Raj Anand and Thakazhi

Ancy Bay PC,  | Research Scholar, Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Hyderabad | Pulp Villainy: Anti-‘Ideal’ and the Cultural Dissidence; an Essay in Malayalam Janapriya Novel

Anilesh. T.T  | Research Scholar Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit | De-stereotyping the Indian Ascetic Body. A Study on the Life and Select Vachanas of Akka Mahadevi

Anju Upendran | Central University of Kerala | The subaltern  speaking  through  Communism  and  Muthappan Theyyam

Arunabha Ghosh | Ph.D. Scholar at the University of Burdwan, WB | Subverting myth: Representing the Marginalised in Mahasweta Devi’s “Draupadi” and “Water”

Arunlal. K,  | Govt. College Mokeri at Calicut | Cinema for the People, by the People: Odessa Movies and the Possibility of Outmoding Capitalist Cinema

Asha Hari and Remi Anna Sunny,  | II MA English, Union Christian College, Aluva | The Role of Social Networking Sites in the Creation and Generation of Dissent

Babu Rajan PP, Asst. Prof. of English, Sree Sankaracharya University, Kalady  | Assistant Professor of English, Sree Sankaracharya University, Kalady | Language of Conformity and Collusion, the Dyed Hair Speaks

Basavaraj P. Donur | Department of English, Central University of Karnataka | Cultural Subtexts In Girish Karnad’s The Fire And The Rain

Bhavin Purohit, , | Associate Professor, English, PRB Arts & PGR Commerce College, Bardoli (Gujarat) | The genre of women’s autobiography: a narrative of dissent

Binayak Bhattacharya,  | PhD Research Scholar, of Film Studies, EFLU, Hyderabad | Cinematic Journey of the Dissident Nationalists: IPTA and the Hindi Films of s and s

Bindu Nair | Dr.Bindu Nair, Associate Professor in English, S.D.College, Alappuzha | Re-defining Gendered Roles: A Selective Reading of Mahasweta Devi’s Fiction

C. Padmanabhan  | Associate ProfessorDepartment of English, Pazhassi Raja N.S.S College, Mattannur, Kannur | Contact Zones and Combat Songs: On the Many Voices of the Subaltern in “Cherur Padappattu”

Candy Dcunha,  | Lecturer in English, P.B Siddhartha College | Affirmation of identity in Urmila Pawar’s Aaydan, The Weave of My Life: A Dalit Woman’s Memoirs

Cheri Jacob K,  | Assistant Professor, Dept of English, Union Christian College, Aluva | The (im)possible Dissent of Theatre: Reading/Staging Oru Madhyavenal Pranayaravu

Chinthu Viswanath | I MPhil  | Theyyam as a Representative Traditional Art Form of Descent

Damyanti Parmar | Professor & Head, Department of Comparative Literature, Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat - , Gujarat | Changing images of women in Indian cinema.

Eldhose AY | MPhil CUK | Plays and Counter Plays: A Study of Dissent towards Dissent

EV. Ramakrishnan | Professor in Comparative Literature, Central University of Gujarat | Representation as resistance: A reading of some testimonials from Malayalam 
Fed Mathew,  | Pius X, Rajapuram | Latter Day Psalms: a dissenting note against mainstream political discourse.

Finitha Jose,  | Research Scholar, Pondicherry University  | Desires of Dissent In  Female Kottayam

Girish N,  | Assistant Professor from St Aloysius College, Mangalore (Karnataka | Dissent in the documentary films of Anand Patawardhan

Gorvika Rao,  | Assistant Professor, Rajdhani College, University of Delhi, Delhi | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Palace of Illusions: Dissenting through re-writing Mahabharat

Gourab Chatterjee,  | JRF, Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University | Un-conventional, Individual and Active: The use of language in women’s prison writings

Indu MY | MPhil, CUK |  “The Emperor Goes Naked”: The God of Small Things and its Politics of Questioning the Givens

J. S. Rohan Savarimuttu | Department of English, Madurai Kamaraj University College, Madurai. | Dalit literature as literature of dissent: sensibility, tradition and culture of metaphysics

Jayalakshmi E | MPhil, CUK | Voicing Nature: An Ecocritical Reading of Aathi.

Jerome K. Jose,.  | Assistant Professor,Department of English,Newman College,Thodupuzha | Divergent Voices and Epistemological Interests: New Dimensions of Muduvan Oratures,

Jigna Vyas,  | Associate Professor, Gujarati, Shri P.H.Umrao College of Arts & Commerce, KIM (affiliated to Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat | Tradition of Dissent in Sub-continental Films: Manish Jha’s ‘Matrubhumi’ and Shoaib Mansoor’s ‘Bol’

Kasfia Yasmin Anwa, | MA (English), Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh  | Nation and Narration: Power of (hi)story or myth to make a shift between dissent & assertion

Kavya Rajeev,  | M.Phil, Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi | Profaning the Divine: Subversion and Resistance in Kodungallur Poorapaattu.

Kishori Nayak K, | Professor of English and Director, CWS, Mangalore University | The Tradition of Dissent in Indian Women’s Autobiographies

Krishnapriya.S | MPhil Comp Lit, Hyderabad | The Voyage Out: A Comparative Study on Chathirakali an Indigenous Art form among Namboodiris in Kerala

Lakshmi C.M. | Assistant Professor, Department of English, Vimala college, Thrissur | Labyrinths of Culture: Exploring the Intraculture and Cross-border Perspectives in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Namesake

Levin Mary Jacob,  | Ph.D Research Scholar, C.A.L.T.S., University of Hyderabad | Margamkali: The Construction of Narratives to Construct an Identity

Lima Sunny,  | Asst.Prof., Dept. of Eng., St. Paul’s College, Kalmassery | Tradition Of Dissent: Zooming In On Shantaram Movies

M Ibrahim Khalilulla,  | Assistant Professor in English, Sahyadri Science College, Kuvempu University, Shimoga | Minority Community/History and Nation: A study of Salaman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children.

M Srinathan,  | Asscoiate Professor, Linguistics, CU Kerala | Ethos of Dissent and Agony of Apathy

Mary Haritha | MPhil, CUK | Biblical Motifs in Malayalam Literature: A Selective Reading of the Texts of Arnos Pathiri and Zacharia

Maya Devi J,  | Associate Professor, S N G College, Chelannur, Calicut | Ambivalent Affiliations: Traditions of Dissent in Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines and The Glass Palace

Mini Babu | Assistant Professor of English, Govt. College for Women, thiruvanathapuram | Shifting Borders and Shifting Psyche: The Diasporic Focus in Madhupal’s Ozhimuri

Munazza Yaqoob | Asst. Professor/Chairperson, Department of English, Female campus, International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan |  Voices of Dissent: Theme of Marriage in Contemporary South Asian Fiction in English

Nagesh Rao,  | Associate Professor of English, Galgotias University, Greater Noida, U.P | Nationality, dissent, and the postcolonial nation

Nidhi Singh | Department of English, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur | Literary Tradition in Rajasthan: Exploring the Note of Dissent in Folktales

Noushad KH | MACL, Central University of Kerala | Reading colonial encounter and indigenization of Islamic culture in Fathul Mubeen

Prabhakaran Hebbar | Assistant Professor, in Hindi, Brennan College, Thalassery | Poetry in Defense of Environment: Dissent against Globalization in the ^st Century Hindi Poetry

Prachand Narayan Piraji,  | Ph. D Scholar, Dept. of English, Pondicherry | Voices of the Dissent: A Critical Study of Baburao Bagul’s Maran Swast Hot Aahe (Death Being Cheaper)

Pradip Kumar Patra | Professor , Department of English & Dean, Bodoland University, Kokrajhar- , Assam | Dissent from Freedom to Closure: A Comparative Study of Jayanta Mahapatra and Nilmani Phookan

Pragya Sen Gupta & Dr. Sriparna Das,  | Centre for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies, University of Hyderabad  | Politics of Representation: Reading Bani Basu’s Ujan Yatra

Prathibha P.,  | Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Vimala College, Thrisssur | Dissent in Indira Goswami’s The Moth-Eaten Howdah of the Tusker and the film Adajya

R. Anitha,  | Associate Professor in English, Devaswom Board College,  Thalayolaparambu, Kottaya | In the Line of Fire : Deepa Mehta’s Films, Critics and Censure

Raj Sree,  | Assistant Professor, Department of English, All Saints College, Trivandrum | Post Memory as a Site of Resistance: The Tradition of Dissent in Partition Fiction

Rajan V  | MPhil CUK | First Martyr in The Marginalised Community In Thulu Nadu

Rajesh James, Asst. Prof. ,  | Assistant Professor, Department of English, Sacred Heart College, Thevara | The Play of Biriyani and Thattam in Usthad Hotel and Thattathin Marayathu

Rajesh Komath | Assistant Professor in Social Sciences, MGU, Kottayam. | Ethnographic I: Dancing Theyyam in north Malabar, Kerala

Reshmi Ravindran P,  | Research Scholar, Department of English, Vimala College, Thrissur | Assertion through Resistance in Narayan’s Kocharethi

Robin Xavier, Asst. Prof. ,  | Assistant Professor, PG & Research Department of English, St. Joseph's College, Devagiri | The (Counter)Politics of the Post(modern) Cinema: Class, (Con)Texts and the Real in Ee Adutha Kalathu

Rohit Dutta Roy | II MA (Comp Lit) Jadavpur, WB | Varieties of Resistance: Individualism and Social-communicative aesthetics in Modern Bengali Poetry

Roshni Prabhakaran,  | Guest Lecturer, Malabar Christian College, Calicut | A Different Sheen: A Queer Reading of Thilakkam

S. Parvathy,  | associate professor of English, FMN College, Kollam | Non-Conformity, Dissent and Assertion: Autobiography of Limbale, Janu and Sattanathan

Sandeep TG | Assistant Professor, Department of English, Sree Kerala Varma College, Thrissur. | Voices of dissent and politics of hegemony: ethnic resistance in ‘Cries in the Wilderness’ by Narayan

Sayantan Mondal  |  | From the Complacent Default to the Hungry Deviation: A Study of Hungryalist Poetry of s

Shabnam Parveen,  | MPhil, CES/SLLCS JNU | Tradition of dissent in the khortha short stories of Jharkhand.

Shamseer Mambra,  | MPhil Scholar at the Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Hyderabad | Pravasi Literature and the Shifting (re)presentation of Gulf Malayalis

Shijomon KV | MPhil, DCL/SLCL, CUK | Kocharethi: Dissenting the ‘Outsider’ and his/her point of view

Shyamala CG | Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Mercy College, Palakkad, Kerala State | Bama’s Karukku and Sangati: Dalit Testimonials as Voices of Resistance

Soma Mukherjee,  | Assistant Professor, Comp Lit., Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan | Reinterpretation of Myth in Indian Literature: A Voice of Dissent.

Suja Kurup P.L.,  | Lecturer, Institute of English, University of Kerala | Dissent as a Mode of Discourse in Mylamma: Oru Jeevitham

Suja Roy Abraham, , | Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Joshi Bedekar College, Thane, Maharashtra | Agricultural Folksongs of Central Kerala: Orality and Resistance

Sujatha Vijayaraghavan,  | Professor and Head, Dept. of English,  SilverJubilee Campus, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry | Divinisation in the Tamil Folktale: the discourse of socio-cultural topography

Sylvia Rego | Associate professor,  Dept of English, St. Aloysius College (Autonomous), Mangalore | Voices of Dissent: Two Low-Caste Women in Nineteenth Century Maharashtra

T. Anantha Vijayah | Assistant Professor in English, Gandhigram Rural Institute – Deemed University, Gandhigram, Dindigul District,Tamil Nadu | Land right movements – creating a discourse of dissent

T.N. Satheesan | Professor of Malayalam, Department of Modern Indian languages, Aligarh Muslim University,Aligarh. | Humor – Means of protest in Mahishasataka

Tanushree Nayak  | Assistant Professor of English , Central Institute of Technology , Kokrajhar | Dissent in the Poems of Sampurna Chattarji and Pratibha Satpathy in Comparative Perspective

Veena R Nair | Guest Lecturer in English,St. Dominic’s College, Kanjirapally | Lacanian reading of dissent in folktales

Vennela Rayavarapu venn  | M.Phil Comparative Literature, University of Hyderabad.  | Influence of Modern Telugu Translations in the making of Standard Telugu

Vijayakumar CPV | Hindi Department, CUK | Tradition of dissent in medieval hindi ashtacháp krishna poetry

Zeenath Mohamed Kunhi,  | Vice Principal, Dayapuram Arts and Science College for Women, Research Scholar, SASTRA University, | The God of Small Things - a carnival square