Call for Book Chapters: #Theorising #Gender in the Context of Cultural Limitations: Contemporary #Indian #Writing in #English

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Call for Papers

Theorising Gender in the Context of Cultural Limitations: A Series of Book Chapters on Contemporary Indian Writing in English

Contemporary Indian Writing in English has gained an amazing momentum down the years. Indian writers of English have directly plunged into the world of the different confronting situations from the point of view of woman and the complex dilemmas of the human society. Feminists suggest that there should be a perfect harmony between man and woman. R. W. Connell “Theorising Gender”writes, A social theory of gender is implied and required by current sexual politics”. In fact, theories of social expectations and power relations between man and woman call for an advanced practical transcendence. Writers like Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai, Arundhati Roy, Neelam Saxena Chandra and others have raised the questions of place and elaborated the different cultural issues. Many such writers express the same concerns of feminist theories - the different phases which a female has to undergo and suffer in the male focused society. It definitely includes the female consciousness in the light of gender based limitations and oppressions. Arising from a fertile milieu that fortifies social and political consciousness, Indian women writers have redefined themselves beyond the clutches of patriarchy.

This book project invites the application of different aspects of the gender theories on contemporary Indian Writing in English and accordingly calls upon the prospective contributors to explore the "woman question" raised by contemporary Indian writers of English.

Submission Guidelines

a) The submissions must be accompanied by a covering letter/page bearing the following information:

i. Full Name of the Author(s)

ii. Post/Research Scholar/Student

iii. Institutional Affiliations (if any)

iv. Contact Details of the Author(s) with Mobile Number

v. A self declaration that it is an original work and has not been published/ sent for publication anywhere else.

b) File must be in Microsoft Word format following MLA 8th edition

c) Contributors must avoid plagiarism and maintain a strict ethical stand regarding acknowledgement of works cited and ideas borrowed from others.

d) The papers submitted should evince serious academic work contributing new knowledge or innovative critical perspectives on the subject explored.

e) End notes and foot notes have to be avoided.

f) Title of the paper should be bold, capitalized and centered. The font should be 14 point.

g) In text the titles of books should be Italics and titles of articles from journals and books should be “quoted” and

h) Font of the text should be Times New Roman 12 point.

i) Line Spacing: 1.5.

j) There should be a margin of 1 inch on all four sides of the paper.

k) Word limit: Minimum 4000 and Maximum 5000 words.

l) There will be no publication charges.

m) Rejected papers won’t be sent back to the contributor(s).

n) Authors are requested to submit their manuscript along with a small abstract of 200 words via email on editor.literature@yahoo.com before Nov 15, 2023.

o) Authors are suggested to submit their bio details of 100-150 words using third person narrative.

p) The book will be published by the publisher of an international repute. Every contributor will receive a free complimentary copy of the book.

Editor

Dr. Vinita Basantani,

M U College of Commerce, Pimpri , Pune (India)

 

Publication Opportunity: Call for Chapters for an edited Open Access volume Bodies, Gender, Identities

 

Call for Chapters for an edited Open Access volume Bodies, Gender, Identities

Dear Colleagues,

We have just published a Call for Chapters for an edited Open Access volume Bodies, Gender, Identities, which is to appear as Vol. 3 in our newly established Olomouc Asian Studies publication series. If you are working on any issue related to the titular themes while focusing on Asian cultures and societies or their diasporic manifestations, please see the call below or via this link.

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• Publication series: Olomouc Asian Studies, Vol. III
• Publisher: Palacký University Olomouc
• Type of publication: Open Access (with DOI given to each chapter) & Print on Demand
• Language of publication: English
• Fields: Humanities and Social Sciences
• Expected publication date: Summer 2024 (no publication fees)

The aim of this publication is to establish a dialogue between different approaches to its titular theme, Bodies, Gender, Identities, with a focus on all Asian cultures and societies as well as their diasporic manifestations. We welcome contributions that address any issue related to the theme, such as the variety of experiences of lived bodies; the governance of life; embodiment and affect; gendered experiences; gender diversity and sexualities; language and bodies/gender/identities; performance and the construction of identities; human life and the environment; social and cultural practices concerning birth and death, food, spirituality, love and intimacy, pain, etc.

We invite both synchronic and diachronic perspectives from anthropology, the arts, cultural geography, history, international relations, linguistics, literary studies, philosophy, political science, religion studies, sociology, and other fields in the humanities and social sciences. We also welcome interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary investigations. Whether grounded in a specific discipline or moving across and beyond disciplinary boundaries, we hope all contributions will display a conscious engagement with theories of embodiment, biopolitics, gender, identity, suffering, and so forth.

The volume follows up on the 16th Annual Conference on Asian Studies organized by the Department of Asian Studies at Palacký University Olomouc, but is open to any thematically relevant submission. We are interested in any original work of research that has not been previously published elsewhere.

Submission procedure

In order to collect chapters for this volume, we first invite extended abstracts in English. The abstracts should be emailed to olas@upol.cz as a PDF file. The file should include the title of the paper, full name, affiliation, e-mail address, five keywords, and an extended abstract, which must be 700–1,000 words long. The abstract submission deadline is May 14, 2023. Decisions on the abstracts will be sent by June 18, 2023.

The submission deadline for full papers based on the accepted abstracts is August 31, 2023. The required length of the full papers is approximately 10–11,000 words (excluding references, tables, etc. from the word count). The papers will subsequently undergo a rigorous double-blind peer-review process by at least two reviewers. We estimate to be able to send out the decisions on all papers by the end of 2023. The expected publication date is summer 2024.

Any questions can be addressed to olas@upol.cz. 

We are looking forward to your submissions!

Contact Info: 

Halina Zawiszová

Contact Email: 

olas@upol.cz