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Greetings of the authorities

Rossella Ciocca  (University of Naples, “L’Orientale”)

Opening remarks

Alex Tickell (Open University, UK)

“A good bombing begins everywhere at once': Reading Disrupted Infrastructure and Form in the Contemporary Indian Novel in English”

Coffee break

I Session

Scenarios of the millennium

Chair: Mara De Chiara  (University of Naples, “L’Orientale”)

Maria Laudando (University of Naples "L’Orientale")

The Remains of the Millennium: Intimations of Obsolescence in Anita Desai’s and Salman Rushdie’s late short fiction

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David Landau (SOAS, University of London)

The Nano Story and New Expression of Love in Delhi

Esterino Adami (University of Turin)

Challenging the Language of Liminality: Voicing/devoicing in Contemporary Indian Writing

Mirko Casagranda (Università della Calabria)

From the “Chutnification” of English to Multilingualism in Deepa Mehta’s Film Adaptation of Midnight’s Children

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II Session

Queering the novel

Chair: Anna Mongibello  (University of Naples, “L’Orientale”)

Alessandro Vescovi (University of Milan)

Adolescent and Homosexual Identities: Fighting the Last Bastions of Colonialism in India

Maryam Mirza (Durham University, UK)

The Resistance of Queer Bodies in Anglophone Fiction by Indian Women

Lucio De Capitani (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)

Framing Queer Indian Narratives: Strategies of Representation in R. Raj Rao’s The Boyfriend, Neel Mukherjee’s Past Continuous and Amruta Patil’s Kari

Tehezeeb Moitra  (University of Naples, “L’Orientale”)

Hybrid Bodies and Re-written Narratives: The Multiplicity of the Female in

Tales of Amnesia

Coffee break

III Session

Out of silence / Subaltern voices

Chair: Katherine Russo  (University of Naples, “L’Orientale”)

Rossella Ciocca (University of Naples, “L’Orientale”)

Mothering the Horror. Rhetoric of Survival in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

Carlotta Beretta (Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna)

Zoomorphism and Dehumanisation in Neel Mukherjee’s A State of Freedom

Alessandra Consolaro (University of Turin)

Rescuing from In/visibility? Issues in Translating Hindi Adivasi Literature

Jaydeep Sarangi (New Alipore College, Kolkata)

Bangla Dalit Literary Movement: Texts and Contexts

Lunch

IV Session

Novel articulations

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Chair: Simonetta de Filippis  (University of Naples, “L’Orientale”)

Oriana Palusci  (University of Naples, “L’Orientale”)

New Vistas, New Eyes: Gendering Anglophone Science Fiction in Postcolonial India

Mara Matta (Sapienza University of Rome)

Utopian Tibet and Dystopian Rome in the Novels by Assamese Writer Kaushik Barua

Aakriti Mandhwani (Shiv Nadar University, Uttar Pradesh)

Reading the Hindi Bestseller List

Giuliana Regnoli  (University of Naples, “L’Orientale”, Heidelberg University)

Renegotiating Ethnicity and Identity in the Indian Student Diaspora:

Amit Chaudhury’s Odysseus Abroad

V Session

South Asian unfoldings

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Chair: Rossella Ciocca  (University of Naples, “L’Orientale”)

Sabita Manian (University of Lynchburg, Virginia) and Brad Bullock (Randolph College, Virginia)

Exit West: Novel Narratives of Migration, Identity & “The Right To Be”

Giuseppe De Riso (University of Naples, “L’Orientale”)

Laying the Specters of Narration: Discursive Absences in Anil’s Ghost by Michael Ondaatje

Angelo Monaco  (University of Pisa)

Postcolonial Realism and Dystopia in Bangladeshi Post-Millennial Writing

Daniela Vitolo (University of Naples, “L’Orientale”)

The City and the Nation: Lahore in the Anglophone Novel