Call for critical/research articles and Interviews

Call for critical/research articles and Interviews

(Dead line 31 May 12/Acknowledge if you are interested on booker_sahitya@rediffmail.com)

It gives us immense pleasure to inform you all that we are going to co-edit two books on Indian English Fiction and the authors/academicians are cordially invited to send their critical/research  papers on: (1) Booker Prize Novels of India and (2) Sahitya Akademi Award winning novels. There are total four Man booker prize novels by Indian novelists and nineteen Sahitya Akademi award winning novels. The details of these books are given below. Please don’t mix up two topics into each other. You can also submit your interviews with these twenty award winning novelists and chances of its acceptance are very bright.

Editorial Requirements

Please read carefully to avoid rejection of submissions:

1. The purpose of the book is to cater the needs of the students pursuing higher studies, M. Phil and Ph. D on subject novels and authors. Hence there will be no compromise on quality of article as we are no asking for any fee rather publisher will be giving one copy of the book free of cost to every contributor.
2. Article should be of 8-15 pages.
3. Strictly written in MLA style(with proper citations and references).
4. Article exhibiting plagiarism and infringement of copyright will be rejected without intimation.
5. Article should be send through email attachment only on booker_sahitya@rediffmail.com. No hard copy is required.
6. Along with submission you must attach certificate of originality, your small bio and mobile no.
7. Submit only two or three lines of abstract which reveals major focus and theme of your article. It is required for writing the preface of book.
8. One author can submit maximum of two articles, one for each book.
9. Excerpts/extracts from the book should not be longer than your critical remarks. Begins and conclude your article with proper critical appraisal and appreciation.

Man Booker Prize Novels of India

1. 1981   Salman Rushdie                  Midnight's Children
2. 1997   Arundhati Roy                     The God of Small Things
3. 2006   Kiran Desai                           The Inheritance of Loss
4. 2008   Aravind Adiga                      The White Tiger

Sahitya Akademi Award winning Novels of India

1.         1960   R. K. Narayan                       The Guide

2.         1963   Raja Rao                               The Serpent and the Rope

3.         1967   Bhabani Bhattacharya      Shadow from Ladakh

4.         1971   Mulk Raj Anand                  Morning Face

5.         1977   Chaman Nahal                     Azadi

6.         1978   Anita Desai                           Fire on the Mountain

7.         1979   Rama Mehta                         Inside the Haveli

8.         1982   Arun Joshi                             The Last Labyrinth

9.         1986   Nayantara Sahgal               Rich Like Us

10.       1988   Vikram Seth                          The Golden Gate

11.       1989   Amitav Ghosh                       The Shadow Lines

12.       1990   Shashi Deshpande              That Long Silence

13.       1991   I. Allan Sealy                         The Trotter-Nama

14.       2000   Kiran Nagarkar                   Cuckold

15.       2002   Amit Chaudhuri                  A New World

16.       2004   Upamanyu Chatterjee        The Mammaries of the Welfare State

17.       2006   Rupa Bajwa                          The Sari Shop

18.       2007   Malathi Rao                         Disorderly Women

19.       2010  Esther David                          The Book of Rachel            

Co-Editors

Dr. Vivekanand Jha                                                  
Editor, translator & award winning poet              
L N Mithila University Darbhanga. 

http://poetvjha.wordpress.com

Mb. No. 09996136060    

     

Dr. Rajnish Mishra                                         

Assistant Professor

IMS Engineering College, Ghaziabad.   

 http://rajnishmishravns.wordpress.com

Mb.  No.  09958714291      

                                                                                             

Please don’t circulate about this CFP among your friends or colleagues lest their articles also get published in these anthologies!