Literature from the Himalayas

LITERATURE FROM THE HIMALAYAS: RETHINKING THE REGION, REIMAGINING THE IDENTITIES

Panel Session A
Session #4 | 9am - 10:30am | Sunday, Sept 3 | HUMN 186

Pushpa Raj Acharya, University of Toronto
Pallabi Gupta, Georgia State University
Walking in the Nepal Mandala: Cultural Heritage in Abhi Subedi's Plays

Ranjan Adiga, Westminster College
Whose English is it Anyway?

Alok Amatya, University of Miami
Transnational Narratives of Return in the novels of Manjushree Thapa and Prajwal Parajuly

Panel Session B
Session #5 | 11am - 12:30pm | Sunday, Sept 3 | HUMN 186

Kritish Rajbhandari, Northwestern University
“a refracted circumstance”: Decentering the Human in Purna Vaidya’s La La Kha

Anu Thapa, University of Iowa
Reading ‘Johnny Gurkha’ in British Military Works and Nepali Literature

Rachel Pang, Davidson College
Non-Sectarian Literature: The Case Of Shabkar’s (1781-1851) Literary Oeuvre

Organizers:

Pushpa Raj Acharya, University of Toronto
Pallabi Gupta, Georgia State University