Sept 9 and 10, 2010 at the Institute Menezes Braganza Check more details at http://groups.google.com/group/goa-book-club
Yesterday (Sept 9): * Keynote address by Prof Mabel Fernandes * Papers on Assessing 'Freedom' through the Thematic Parameters of Loss and Longing: Lambert Mascarenhas' Sorrowing Lies my Land. (Sunita Mesquita) Colonial Ideology, Colonized Psyche and Goan Identity: Deconstructing Denationalization and Critiquing Nationalism through Sorrowing Lies My Land. Akshata Bhatt Four Motifs in Sorrowing Lies My Land. Ibha Gupta. Anti-colonial sentiments in Lambert Mascarenhas' novel Sorrowing Lies my Land (M Shanthi and Lizella Gonsalves) * Heartbreak Passage: Partition as a metaphor (Isabel Santa Rita Vas) Historical Context of Heartbreak Passage by Lambert Mascarenhas Tanvi Bambolkar Nostalgic Vignettes of Goan Life: An Appreciation of In the Womb of Saudade by Lambert Mascarenhas (Prema Rocha) Mimesis and Catharsis: the Rendering of Reality to Shape Ideology in In the Womb of Saudade (Nafisa Oliveira) Today, Sept 10, 2014 * Encountering Goan writing in English: Perils, pitfalls and potential (FN) Thinking Goan Postcolonially: A Small Place of Different Worlds (R Benedito Ferrao) Binding the Evanescent: Goan Theatre in English (Brian Mendonca) Goa Articulated Through the Voice of the Subaltern in Jess Fernandes' Toddy Tapper and His Goa: Eltrin D'Souza Chair: Dr A R Fernandes (9.30 am to 11 am) * Goan Writing from the Author's Perspective (Dinesh Patel) Exploring the Presence of Cultural Exchange and Cultural Hybridity in Magaret Mascarenhas' Skin (Palia Gaonkar) Diasporic Presence in Goan Literature: A Cultural Insight (Leanora Pereira) Vivek Menezes 11.05 am to 12.10 pm. Chair Dr Isabel S R Vas * Jose Lourenco to chair an interaction with the translator/ transliterator. Guru Baliga. Vidya Pai, Xavier Cota. Augusto Pinto. * Konkani Fiction in English Translation: An Eco-critical View Glenis Mendonca. Through the Prisim of Goan Writing: Historicized Fiction, Fictionalized History (Dattaguru Joshi) A Society in Transition: The UPheaval. Diana Patsy de Souza. Significance of the Oral within the Literary: A Study of Pundalik Naik's The Upheaval and Mahabaleshwar Sail's Kali Ganga. 2 pm to 3.15 pm. Chair Prof Kiran Budkuley * Goa in Translation: A Linguistic Analysis of Three Goan Novels Fiona Fernandes. * Short Stories from the Goan Diaspora. Dicksha Pandit, Rhonda Sequeira, Felicia Pereira, Valancia Vaz. 3.15 to 3.30 pm. Chair: Prof N Caldeira * Valedictory function 4 to 5 pm. -- P +91-832-2409490 M +91-9822122436 W http://goa1556.in