GIAN Workshop
on
Literature of Empire
at
Central University of Kerala
26 – 31 Dec 2017
Course Overview
This course looks
at plots of empire in the British novel of the nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries. It examines not only how empire was represented but also how the
novel form gave visibility to the strategies of empire and also showed the
tacit purposes, contradictions, and anxieties of British imperialism. The
course is structured around the themes of: the culture of secrecy; criminality
and detection; insurgency, surveillance, and colonial control; circulation and
exchange of commodities. Specifically, the course will focus on how the culture
of secrecy that accompanied imperial expansion defined the tools of literary
imagination in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
You are eligible
to attend If…
You are a
graduate or post graduate in English or / and Comparative Literature.
You are doing
project or research in the filed of postcolonial studies / literature.
Objectives:
(1) Examine the
impact of colonial expansion on the geography of narrative forms.
(2) Analyze the
language of indirection in English novels and trace metaphors and symbols to
imperialism’s culture of secrecy.
(3) Develop
interpretative tools for reading the imperial novel.
Number of
participants for the course will be limited to twenty-five. Course participants
will learn the following module through lectures, seminars and presentations.
Modules
Literature of Empire: 26th Dec – 31st Dec 2017
Focal Modules:
“Mysticism and
Espionage: The Great Game” - Rudyard Kipling, Kim.
“Detection and
Knowledge of the Other”- Arthur Conan Doyle, Sign of Four
“Detection,
Imperialism, and Family Secrets” - Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone
“Decryption and
Detection” - Richard Marsh, The Beetle
“Devolution and
Degeneration” - Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
“Empire and the
Enigma of Antiquity” - H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon’s Mines
“Imperial
Gothic”- H. Rider Haggard, She
“Messianic
Messages”- Rudyard Kipling, Selected Short Stories
“Insurgency and
Colonial Control” – Philip Meadows Taylor, Confessions of a Thug
“Prophecy and
Political Violence” - Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
Fees: Participants
are supposed to remit the fee as follows after they receive the selection
letter from the course coordinator based on their submission of the statement
of purpose for attending the course.
Participants from
abroad: US $ 500
Participants from
South Asia and Africa: $ 300
Student
Participants from India: Rs. 3000/-
Student
participants from host institution: Rs. 1500/-
The above fee is
towards instructional materials, lunch, tea, snacks etc. Expenses for
accommodation and the travel should be met by the participants.
Faculty
Prof. Dr. Gauri Viswanathan
Prof. Dr. Gauri
Viswanathan is Director, South Asia Institute, and Class of 1933 Prof. in the
Humanities, Dept of English & Comparative Literature, Columbia University,
New York, USA. She is the author
of Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and
British Rule in India (Columbia, 1989; Oxford, 1998) and Outside the Fold: Conversion, Modernity, and
Belief (Princeton, 1998). She also edited Power, Politics, and Culture: Interviews with Edward W. Said
(Vintage, 2001). Prof. Viswanathan is coeditor of the book series South Asia
Across the Disciplines, published jointly by the university presses of Columbia,
Chicago, and California under a Mellon grant. She has held numerous visiting
chairs, among them the Beckman Professorship at Berkeley, and was recently an Affiliated
Fellow at the American Academy in Rome and a Visiting Mellon Scholar at the
University of Cape Town.
Dr. Prasad Pannian
Dr. Prasad
Pannian is currently Associate Professor in Department of English &
Comparative Literature, Central University of Kerala, India where he served as
the founder Chair during 2009-2011. He is the author of Edward Said and the Question of Subjectivity (New York: Palgrave
Macmillan ), 2016. He has been a fellow in the prestigious Critical Theory
Schools at Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, University of London, UK (2012),
School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, (2013)
& The New School for Social Research’s Institute for Critical Social
Inquiry , New York City, US (2016).
Course-Cordinator
Dr. Prasad
Pannian
Associate
Professor, Department of English & Comparative Literature
Central University
of Kerala, Vidyanagar
Campus, Vidyanagar
PO, Kasaragod, 671123
E mail: prasadpannian@cukerala.ac.in
Registration Form
1. Name (in Block
Letters):
2. Designation
& Institutional Affiliation:
3.
Qualifications:
4. Address:
5. Email:
6. Mobile number:
7. Statement of
Purpose for attending the course Literature of Empire : ( in not more than 1000
words)
The filled up registration form should be sent to the
Course Co-ordinator & Host faculty, Dr. Prasad Pannian’s email:
prasadpannian@cukerala.ac.in , on or before 30th September 2017.
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