Room Number: TRS 2-164
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Chair: Radhika Mohanaram (U Cardiff)
Speakers:
Ramanpreet Kaur (U Western Ontario) “The Politics of Self-Representation and Representation: A Comparative Analysis of Piro’s Kafian and Swarajbir’s Shairee”
Feisal Kirumira (U Alberta), “Reasserting African Indigeneity to Disrupt Colonial Post-Tribal Nationhood in (B)Uganada”
Tara Senanayake (U Peradeniya), “Of silences, omissions, and dust in the reader’s eyes: the Politics of Publication in Sri Lankan Anglophone Fiction Post-1983”
Paper Summaries:
Ramanpreet Kaur (U Western Ontario) “The Politics of Self-Representation and Representation: A Comparative Analysis of Piro’s Kafian and Swarajbir’s Shairee”
This paper analyzes the politics of self-representation and representation through the lenses of
caste and gender in life writings of Piro, a nineteenth-century Punjabi poet, dancing girl, and consort of the head of a marginal religious sect and Swarajbir’s play Shairee (2004).
Feisal Kirumira (U Alberta), “Reasserting African Indigeneity to Disrupt Colonial Post-Tribal Nationhood in (B)Uganada”
This paper critically examines the re-turn to Baganda indigeneity as a way of reasserting African sovereignty of selfhood and nationhood to disrupt the colonial commons of inter-tribal universality. Disrupting the commons of a colonizing Protectorate was the indispensable first step towards (B)Ugandan independence of the self and the nation.
Tara Senanayake (U Peradeniya), “Of silences, omissions, and dust in the reader’s eyes: the Politics of Publication in Sri Lankan Anglophone Fiction Post-1983”
This paper probes the “silences”, “omissions” and the distortions of truth in the post-colonial Sri Lankan English text. Some texts packed with post truths triumph in international markets while the projects of resident writers to give voice to the silenced fails as (consciously or unconsciously) the politics of representation has fallen victim to the politics of publication.