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October 11, 2006
Contact: Anne Russell
604-795-2826
or 604-504-7441, local 2826
Cell: 604-798-3709
anne.russell@ucfv.ca
Visiting scholar to speak at UCFV on women in Indian fiction and cinema
Fans
of Indian cinema and literature will want to catch upcoming
presentations by visiting professor Dr. Nilufer Bharucha at the
University College of the Fraser Valley.
Bharucha, the head of
the English department at the University of Mumbai, will be making two
public presentations, one on Images of Women in Indian Cinema on Wed,
Oct 18, at 7 pm in main lecture theatre on the Abbotsford campus, and
one on India, Women, and Fiction on Wed, Nov 1, at 7 pm at University
House on the Abbotsford campus. Admission is free and open to the
public.
The Images of Women in Indian Cinema event, subtitled
Devis (Goddesses), Devdaasis (Prostitutes), and Daayins (Witches) will
explore how the way women are presented in Indian films ties into
mythology and women’s traditional roles.
The India, Women, and
Fiction event will be a book-group style discussion of a short story by
Shashi Deshpande. If you wish to read a copy of the story before the
event, contact UCFV’s Dr. Susan Fisher at susan.fisher@ucfv.ca or
604-504-7441, local 4453, and she will forward one to you. Deshpande is
well-known as a fiction writer in India but is just beginning to find
an audience abroad.
Bharucha’s areas of specialization are
postcolonial literature, Indian film, the writings of the Parsis, and
the literature of the Raj. She is the author of a book on the fiction
of Rohinton Mistry, and her articles and essays have appeared in
Western and Indian journals and anthologies. She is also a fiction
writer and translator.
In addition to her public lectures,
Bharucha will also spend time with students in UCFV’s South Asian
literature and creative writing classes.
“I first came into
contact with Dr. Bharucha when I wrote her with an inquiry about
something she had written in her book about the fiction of Indo-Canadian
Rohinton Mistry,” recalled Dr. Susan Fisher of UCFV’s English
department. “I found out she often travels to give guest lectures, so
I decided to ask if she’d like to come here. UCFV is unique in its focus
on South Asian literature, and bringing in guests such as Dr. Bharucha
is a way of enriching our offerings in this area.
“Visits like this also
help set the stage for more formal relationships between our
institutions such as faculty or student exchanges or our alumni going
on to do graduate work in India.”
Dr. Bharucha’s visit is being
sponsored by the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute and UCFV’s
International Education department. It is part of a growing focus on
India at UCFV through its Centre for Indo-Canadian Studies and Research.
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