Down the Rabbit Hole
The Annual Paper Presentation-2021
Jabberwock, the Academic Journal of the Department of English, organised their annual student paper presentation, the first one in an online mode, on Saturday, October 16th, 2021. The theme chosen for this year was ‘Uncertainty’, imagined as the ruling sentiment of the current world that waits to see how the future of the pandemic unfolds.
The relentless battering done by the Covid pandemic has produced a range of affective responses around uncertainty. Literary writing has long questioned certainty to foregrounded multiplicity and fragmentation, resulting in radical possibilities that have been politically disruptive, or pointing at the impossibility of the effort of any meaning-making that is held certain. It is these literary legacies of uncertainty, tied to the present of the pandemic, that the six student presenters explored in their papers.
The range of titles presented included: “Tracing Time on Foreign Terrain: Exploring Uncertainty of Expatriate Journeys through Shoba Narayan’s Return to India” (by Aditi Jain), “Poetry and Political Emotion: Radical Possibilities within Postcolonial Love Poem” (by Vibha Swaminathan), “And In short, I was afraid" : The tussle with Negative Capability in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (by Kritika Nautiyal), “The Representation of Uncertainty in Samuel Beckett’s Plays” (by Shefali Kohli), “Let(ting) It Go: Tracing Uncertainty in the Understanding of Queerness in Disney” (by Shikha Chandra), and “Fanfiction: Navigating Uncertainties” (by Yashica).
Selected papers, written by students from various departments and colleges, were presented to be judged by English Department professors Dr. Shernaz Cama and Mitali Mishra. The paper presented by Aditi Jain from the Department of English at Indraprastha College was awarded best paper, for its cogent argument, polemic nature, and relevance to the chosen theme. This will feature as a publication in the annual Jabberwock Print Journal.
The relentless battering done by the Covid pandemic has produced a range of affective responses around uncertainty. Literary writing has long questioned certainty to foregrounded multiplicity and fragmentation, resulting in radical possibilities that have been politically disruptive, or pointing at the impossibility of the effort of any meaning-making that is held certain. It is these literary legacies of uncertainty, tied to the present of the pandemic, that the six student presenters explored in their papers.
The range of titles presented included: “Tracing Time on Foreign Terrain: Exploring Uncertainty of Expatriate Journeys through Shoba Narayan’s Return to India” (by Aditi Jain), “Poetry and Political Emotion: Radical Possibilities within Postcolonial Love Poem” (by Vibha Swaminathan), “And In short, I was afraid" : The tussle with Negative Capability in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (by Kritika Nautiyal), “The Representation of Uncertainty in Samuel Beckett’s Plays” (by Shefali Kohli), “Let(ting) It Go: Tracing Uncertainty in the Understanding of Queerness in Disney” (by Shikha Chandra), and “Fanfiction: Navigating Uncertainties” (by Yashica).
Selected papers, written by students from various departments and colleges, were presented to be judged by English Department professors Dr. Shernaz Cama and Mitali Mishra. The paper presented by Aditi Jain from the Department of English at Indraprastha College was awarded best paper, for its cogent argument, polemic nature, and relevance to the chosen theme. This will feature as a publication in the annual Jabberwock Print Journal.
Written by Meher Nandrajog