Continent of Blind Culture: Challenges in reading the narrative domain using conventional fraeworks in diasporic theory at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Mehrauli Road > 3pm-5pm on 22nd June 2013
Time : 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Event Description : Ved Mehta’s Continent of Blind Culture: Challenges in reading the narrative domain using conventional fraeworks in diasporic theory by Dr Hemachandran Karah, Visiting Associate Fellow at CSDS
Continents of Exile, Mehta's autobiographical compendium, and his oeuvre at large unfold in six idiosyncratic narrative domains, fondly nicknamed as Continents. These are the Continents of India, Britain, America, psychoanalysis, The New Yorker, and blind culture. Of these, the Continent of blind culture is unique since it first, binds together the rest of the narrative domains; and second, it brings alive a dormant viewpoint in the oeuvre that blindness is an inferior visual binary to sightedness, and that, it is an isolated institutional dynamic.
Mehta inherits such a view based on his experiences with Anglo-American institutional practices of the blind such as Orientation and Mobility (OandM) and braille. Detesting these systems as spaces of isolation, Mehta seeks a home within the visual. Some of these locations of home include psychoanalysis, American car culture, The New Yorker, and apparently, memories of his homeland in Punjab. But the problem is, these locations themselves are infested by notions of isolation that are harmful to the blind.
Pervasiveness of the notion of blind culture, as well as Mehta’s ambivalent attitude towards it, render his global mobility as a blind writer of the literature of exile difficult to comprehend. I address these challenges, testing this time conventional diasporic frameworks such as ‘exile’, ‘memory’, and ‘cosmopolitanism’.
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Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Place : Room No-13, CSSS II, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi - 110067
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Event Description : Ved Mehta’s Continent of Blind Culture: Challenges in reading the narrative domain using conventional fraeworks in diasporic theory by Dr Hemachandran Karah, Visiting Associate Fellow at CSDS
Continents of Exile, Mehta's autobiographical compendium, and his oeuvre at large unfold in six idiosyncratic narrative domains, fondly nicknamed as Continents. These are the Continents of India, Britain, America, psychoanalysis, The New Yorker, and blind culture. Of these, the Continent of blind culture is unique since it first, binds together the rest of the narrative domains; and second, it brings alive a dormant viewpoint in the oeuvre that blindness is an inferior visual binary to sightedness, and that, it is an isolated institutional dynamic.
Mehta inherits such a view based on his experiences with Anglo-American institutional practices of the blind such as Orientation and Mobility (OandM) and braille. Detesting these systems as spaces of isolation, Mehta seeks a home within the visual. Some of these locations of home include psychoanalysis, American car culture, The New Yorker, and apparently, memories of his homeland in Punjab. But the problem is, these locations themselves are infested by notions of isolation that are harmful to the blind.
Pervasiveness of the notion of blind culture, as well as Mehta’s ambivalent attitude towards it, render his global mobility as a blind writer of the literature of exile difficult to comprehend. I address these challenges, testing this time conventional diasporic frameworks such as ‘exile’, ‘memory’, and ‘cosmopolitanism’.
Website : www.grfdt.com
Related Events : Talks
Continent of Blind Culture: Challenges in reading the narrative domain using conventional fraeworks in diasporic theory at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Mehrauli Road > 3pm-5pm on 22nd June 2013
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