Mangalore, March 6: The city based Besant Women's College is going to organise a national seminar on 'Emerging images of woman in Indian fiction in English and in translations from regional languages' on March 9 and 10, 2012 at the College auditorium.
Announcing this at a press conference Dr Manjula K T, national seminar chairperson, said the programme aims at generating thoughts and discussions related to issues concerning the image of a woman in contemporary Indian fiction. It will also examine whether this emerging image of the woman in Indian Fiction is true to the original.
Ancient societies the world over had been subjected to patriarchal domination and women were either relegated to the background or driven to periphery. The first generation writers of Indian Fiction in English reflecting the contemporary social practices portrayed women in their traditional subservient roles. The woman's perspective on the world gradually emerged with the arrival of women writers on the scene and this prompted the male writers to rethink and redefine their constructs of female identity. Since then the enduring, self-sacrificing image of the woman of the old world has been replaced by that of the independent woman in control of herself and her life.
He said this national seminar is meant for academicians, teachers, and students of English, research scholars, creative writers, critics and avid readers of English Literature.
The chief guest on March 9 will be Shashi Deshpande, renowned Indian Novelist in English. The key note speaker will be Dr Susie Tharu, Professor and co-ordinator, School of Critical Humanities, CIEFL- Hyderabad.
The first technical session will be on “Indian Women Novelists and the Construction of Woman's Identity, by Dr P Ajay Kumar, Professor of English, Department of Distance Education, University of Kerala. The second technical session will be on 'Indian Men writing in English and Women's issues' by Dr Rajendra Chenni, Professor of English, Kuvempu University, Shimoga. On March 10, the technical session will be delivered by Dr Sujatha Vijayaraghavan, Professor of English, Pondicherry University on “The Subaltern Woman in Indian Novels”. The second technical session on the same day will be by Dr Gigy Joseph, Professor of English, St Berchmans College, Mahatma Gandhi Unveristy, Kerala. The topic will be “Representing Woman in India –Politics, Society and writing.
The valedictory ceremony will be held on March 10 at 2.30 pm. The chief guest will be Giselle Mehta, a city based novelist and creative personality.
Preetha Bhandary and Meera Edna Coelho, coordinators of national seminar were present at the press meet.
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