The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library
cordially invites you to The Weekly Seminar
at 3:00 p.m. on Tuesday, 21 August 2012
in the Seminar Room, First Floor, Library Building
on
‘Mapping Literature: Culture and Region Formation in the Brahmaputra Valley’
by
Dr. Manjeet Baruah , School of Translation Studies and Training, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi
Abstract:
The paper has two main arguments. It argues that in the 19th century, the Brahmaputra Valley transformed from a crossroad to a frontier. What distinguished the two forms of borderlands was the erosion of the shared socio-spatial domains in the Valley. The paper argues that this shift indicates how borderlands comprise historical formations rather than being essential non state or inter-national spaces. The paper argues that discourses of identity can be situated in these historical shifts in region formation. The second part of the argument focuses on mapping literary narratives, whether performative or written, in the context of historical shift in borderland formation. On the one hand, literary narratives attempt to map existing forms of socio-spatial relations. But the paper also discusses examples when in situations of shift, literary narratives seek a more dynamic role in both articulating the shift as well as impacting upon the shift. In the process, literature explores and experiments with modes of communicating itself (as art). The literary evidences as case studies for the paper are taken from both the pre-colonial and the colonial and post colonial periods. The paper concludes on the point whether contemporary literary narratives indicate possibilities of the Valley undergoing further historical shifts as borderland.
Speaker:
Dr. Manjeet Baruah is Assistant Professor in the School of Translation Studies and Training, IGNOU. His research interests include region studies, cultural history and translation studies. His recent works include Frontier Cultures: A Social History of Assamese Literature,
Routledge, 2012. Currently he is involved in a research project on Translation and Indigenous Knowledge in North East India.
All are welcome.
Those wishing to have their names added to the e-mail list may please e-mail us at:
nmmldirector@gmail.com
cordially invites you to The Weekly Seminar
at 3:00 p.m. on Tuesday, 21 August 2012
in the Seminar Room, First Floor, Library Building
on
‘Mapping Literature: Culture and Region Formation in the Brahmaputra Valley’
by
Dr. Manjeet Baruah , School of Translation Studies and Training, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi
Abstract:
The paper has two main arguments. It argues that in the 19th century, the Brahmaputra Valley transformed from a crossroad to a frontier. What distinguished the two forms of borderlands was the erosion of the shared socio-spatial domains in the Valley. The paper argues that this shift indicates how borderlands comprise historical formations rather than being essential non state or inter-national spaces. The paper argues that discourses of identity can be situated in these historical shifts in region formation. The second part of the argument focuses on mapping literary narratives, whether performative or written, in the context of historical shift in borderland formation. On the one hand, literary narratives attempt to map existing forms of socio-spatial relations. But the paper also discusses examples when in situations of shift, literary narratives seek a more dynamic role in both articulating the shift as well as impacting upon the shift. In the process, literature explores and experiments with modes of communicating itself (as art). The literary evidences as case studies for the paper are taken from both the pre-colonial and the colonial and post colonial periods. The paper concludes on the point whether contemporary literary narratives indicate possibilities of the Valley undergoing further historical shifts as borderland.
Speaker:
Dr. Manjeet Baruah is Assistant Professor in the School of Translation Studies and Training, IGNOU. His research interests include region studies, cultural history and translation studies. His recent works include Frontier Cultures: A Social History of Assamese Literature,
Routledge, 2012. Currently he is involved in a research project on Translation and Indigenous Knowledge in North East India.
All are welcome.
Those wishing to have their names added to the e-mail list may please e-mail us at:
nmmldirector@gmail.com
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