[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 3 | January 27, 2014]
The Department Of English, Maharaja Sayajirao University Of Baroda is organizing UGC SAP DRS – II National Seminar ‘Theorizing Movements: Literary, Social And Cultural’ on March 24-25, 2014.
Seminar note issued by the department.
In the 1970s and 80s, India experienced a surge of political activism that gave rise to a phenomenon that is today called ‘new social movements’. Centered diversely around identities, languages and inequalities at various levels, these movements forced new questions on the nation. Simultaneously, they reconfigured understandings of the literary and cultural, generated new forms and genres that questioned existing hierarchies. In many ways these movements drew on the energies of the nationalist movement and progressive writers such as Munshi Premchand and Subramania Bharati. Yet, these movements raised new questions and charted new territories. (more…)