Showing posts with label Indian literature in English. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Indian literature in English. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Annalemma Magazine runs an India theme

The New York based literary and arts magazine Annalemma likes a good story and an intense aesthetic. Appearing both in print and online form, their upcoming issue is themed around India.
Here is what they say about Out of Print.


Annalemma Issue Nine: IndiaCall to Submit

As America and Europe begin to recede into the background of global superpowers, new forces are stepping up as the leaders of the democratic world. Among these powers, is India. With the die of globalization now cast, the geopolitical, economic, technological & environmental landscape is more connected than ever. It is important for people in the West, young people especially, to claim an understanding of how their world intersects and effects Indian culture, and vice versa.

But how can you expect to cover an entire country in one go? And in 104 pages of a literary magazine no less? Agreed, that's somewhat impossible. The purpose of this issue is to allow a point of entry for Western readers and writers, to forge a new mental pathway to understanding.

What we are humbly asking of Indian writers is this: show us your country. Show us the micro and the macro, show us the beauty and the horror, the power, the corruption, the injustice, the triumph, the enduring beauty, the infinite feedback loop of suffering, all the wonder and terror your country brings to bear.

A lot of American/Western writers might be upset about this, maybe feel left out. So we offer this appeal: If you are a writer who has some connection to India or can offer some informed opinion of your experience as it pertains to the topic, we'd love to read it.

We'll accepting creative nonfiction, fiction, personal essay and interviews. No poetry, please. Simultaneous submissions are allowed. Please keep submissions under 5000 words. Any submissions over 5000 words, please submit a query letter. Please send only one submission at a time. We're finding creative nonfiction more compelling these days, so the more of that you send, the more likely you'll get published.

Deadline is January 13th.

Click here to submit:
http://annalemma.submishmash.com/submit

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Chandrahas Choudhury launches 'India: A Traveller's Literary Companion'

A few Fridays ago at Crosswords in Mumbai, the novelist, blogger, and friend of Out of Print Chandrahas Choudhury launched ‘India: A Traveller’s Literary Companion’, a collection of short fiction which aims to be geographically representative of India, which he edited. At the launch, he discussed the emergence of Indian literature in English, as well as the difficulty of presenting an accurate picture of the richness of Indian literature in all the languages it exists in, simply because of the difficulty of finding good translations of vernacular literature.

The discussion was based largely around the novel and its evolution. It makes one wonder what place the short story occupies in the history of Indian literature and how the modern short story relates to the rich history of subcontinental writing? In Chandrahas’ opinion, the format has commonalities with the Jataka tales and folk storytelling in the oral tradition. It will be interesting to see whether this is visible in the stories we receive for our next issue, which has the theme of mythology.
by Mira Brunner, editor, Out of Print