Call for Papers for an Edited Book

We are pleased to inform you that we are going to publish an edited volume (ISBN included) with the proposed
title Refraction of Myth in the Humanities: The post -1990s Indian English Fiction. Insightful, authentic,
scholarly and unpublished research oriented papers are invited (title related areas of the book) from
academicians, writers and research scholars on any Indian author and Indian text for publication in an edited
volume with an ISBN from an internationally/nationally reputed publishing house.
Concept Note

Myth have had a very special place in our consciousness and life and as well as in society. It has been present in
almost all cultures and literature of the world right from the genesis of human being itself. Myth from its
inception, as it has been inferred from the available scholarship, has always a penchant for the assimilation. It
forges a link between different elements of culture and language providing cultural and social strength. It has
played a key role in revitalizing the human faith and values against the many odd constraints of times over the
years; it has impacted a totalizing force, too with its narration infused with indigenous faiths and commitment
to the tales. Moreover, it goes without saying that the myth has got a special association with the religious
practices from the antiquity to the present.

Myth is an inclusive term and widely associated with the discourses of humanity, and artists and the
writers alike have been using it in their works to counter the dominant and hegemonic ideologies and as well to
reassert their point of view in order to find out a lost voice, or identity through various forms of representation.
The use of myth by the feminist, tribal and dalit discourse are, as K Satchidanandan maintains, ‘productive in
their retelling’. Postcolonial Indian writers have shown a marvellous mythopoeic sensibility to subvert not only
the colonial discourse and but also to reclaim their lost voice or identity. They seek to undermine the
hegemonic ideologies within the colonial/postcolonial socio-political apparatuses. Hence, myth and history
though quite often considered contradictory to each other are always presumed to be coterminous, are dominant
imperatives in re-locating the contemporaneity in the postcolonial India. The revision/re-rewriting of them
amount to assert or transcend the conflicts of diverse racial, tribal, ethnic, and social groups/communities.
The practice of re-writing of myths for example, is overwhelming as well as superfluous especially in
80s onwards among the Indian English writers. This revisionist approach apparently seeks to dismantle the
singularity and homogeneity (which we look them as postcolonial aporia) in Indian society and as a consequent
it opens up the multiples voices hitherto, silenced and unheard. A quite impressive number of works have come
up to dislocate the centrality of myths; for example Pratibha Ray’s Yagnaseni, Devakaruni Banerjee’s The
Palace of Illusions, Sara Joseph’s Ramayana Kathakal, and recently Namitha Gokhale Lost in Time:
Ghatotkacha and the Game of Illusions to mention just a few. These re-writings conjure up the ‘plurality of
multiplicities’ as it were, and promises to decimate the dominance of narrative, text and power among others.
This process of (re) textualizing the unsung individuals’ gives voice to those subjects who are segregated on the
bases of caste, gender, sexuality, ethnicity and such identity markers.
 The contemporary use of myth though doesn’t not have any serious dearth though; it appears but
exciting to look into the different (mis) usages of myth in the post- 90s Indian scenario when literature is
moving towards global, cosmopolitan identity and the effort is to find out as to how it embodies diverse
conflicting views, crises, experiences and dislocation stemming from the various historical, sociopolitical and
cultural conditions.

Sub-themes:
Myth, gender and identity
Myth, text and narratology
Myth, popular culture and cinema
Myth and ecology
Myth, language and translation
Myth and human consciousness
Myth, rituals and occultism
Myth, memory and archive
Myth, technology and multimedia
Myth, ideology and power
Myth and sexuality
Myth and caste consciousness
Myth and oral narrative
Guidelines for the submission:
The papers submitted should evince serious academic work either contributing to the existing knowledge or
should show innovative critical perspectives on the subject undertaken.
 Manuscript must be written in English language.
• File must be in Microsoft Word format (Preferably Word 2007) and the authors will have to strictly
follow MLA 8th edition for writing their papers.
• Size of paper and text: A4, Font & size: Times New Roman 12 and justified whereas the title must
be in 14-point size, bold.
• Spacing: One and a half, Margin: 1 inch on all four sides.
• Word limit: 3000 words to 4500 words including work cited / bibliography (Articles less than 10
pages will not be accepted).
• Abstract: 200 words along with 5-7 key words.
• Each manuscript must carry a self-declaration that it is an original work and has not been published/
sent for publication anywhere else.
• A brief bio-note of 100 words of the respective authors (name, postal address, designation, affiliation,
specialization, mail-id, contact no. etc.) should be attached towards the end of the paper.
Selection Procedure:

All submissions are subjected to peer reviewing process. Final selection will be made only if the papers are
approved for publication by the referees. The details of the selection of your paper will be referred to you
telephonically or through email. The executive editor has the right to make indispensable expurgation of
selected papers for the sake of conceptual clarity and structuring. Non-selected papers will not be sent back to
the donor in any form. So, all contributors are counseled to keep a copy of their submission with them. Each
contributor will get a free complimentary copy from editors.

Plagiarism Alert:

Contributors are advised to abide by to austere academic ethics with respect to acknowledgment of original
ideas from others. The editor will not be liable for any such lapse of the contributor. Plagiarism report of the
research paper duly checked in plagiarism software like Urkund, viper, Turn it in, Plag scan etc must have to
submit along with the paper.

The order of the content must be as per the following sequence:

1. Title page with the author’s name and institutional details

2. Abstract
3. Keywords
4. Main body of the text
5. Works cited
6. Declaration and Bio-note

Only electronic submission via e-mail will be accepted for the publication. Authors are requested to submit
their papers and documents to mythliteraturecfp20@gmail.com before 15th December 2020. Acceptance or
rejection of the paper will be intimated after a review within 30 days after the deadline.

Dr. Ram Bhawan Yadav (PhD, Banaras Hindu University)

Assistant Professor

Department of English

School of Language and Literature

Sikkim University

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