Kohima, February 10 (MExN): Nagaland University (NU), Kohima Campus, Department of English will be organizing an International Conference on Contemporary American Literature, History, Culture and Politics on February 28 and March 1 at its Campus Meriema.
This is an open invite for paper presentations on multidisciplinary topics from University and College teachers and Research scholars from various disciplines, informed Dr Rosemary Dzuvichu, Professor and Head, Department of English NU, in a press release.
Keynote Address will be delivered by Professor Mauricio Damian Aguilera Linde, Granada University, Spain.
American Literature holds one of the World’s most dynamic literary traditions. The literature written/ produced in the United States and its preceding colonies before the foundation of the United States in the British colonies was heavily influenced by English Literature.
The American literary tradition is thus a part of the broader tradition of English literature. The 20th century literary environment in American literature witnessed diverse themes, techniques and trends of writing.
American Literature from early 1970s with their postmodernist features can indisputably be called Contemporary American Literature.
Thomas Pynchon is considered the foremost postmodernist contemporary American writer. Minority literature, written by and about ethnic minorities beyond African American and Jewish Americans is one of the major aspects of contemporary American Literature.
Several varieties of minority literature, Native American literature, Asian American Literature, Arab American literature, Korean American Literature, etc and migrant writings in their multiple dimensions have contributed to the growth and diversity of contemporary American Literature. All aspects of Contemporary American Literature and corresponding critical trends will be deliberated upon in the proposed International Seminar, the release informed.
The abstracts of papers in about 250 words are invited on the following broad sub-themes latest by February 17: (The abstracts should be e-mailed to nndas69@yahoo.co.in/ rosedzuvichu@yahoo.com/ nndas@nagalanduniversity.ac.in):
Contemporary American Culture: Trends and Concept; Contemporary American History; Contemporary American Politics vs World Politics; Trends in Contemporary American Fiction; Trends in Contemporary American Poetry; Trends in Contemporary American Drama; Contemporary Native American Literature; Contemporary Black Literature; Trends in other Contemporary American Literary Writings, Literary Criticism, etc; Contemporary American Literature in Comparative Perspectives; Migrant Literature, Diaspora and Recent Challenges in Writing.
