Listed in: Political Science, as POSC-207
Amrita Basu (Section 01)
Krupa Shandilya (Section 01)
This course will study South Asian women and gender through key texts in film, literature, history and politics. How did colonialism and nationalism challenge the distinctions between the “home” and the “world” and bring about partitions which splintered once shared cultural practices? What consequences did this have for postcolonial politics? How do ethnic conflicts, religious nationalisms and state repression challenge conceptions of “home”? How have migrations, globalization and diasporas complicated relations between the home and the world? Texts will include Salman Rushdie’s Shalimar the Clown, Ram Gopal Varma’s epic film Sarkar and Partha Chatterjee’s The Nation and Its Fragments.
Fall semester. Professors Basu and Shandilya.
Section 01
M 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM WEBS 220
W 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM WEBS 220
This is preliminary information about books for this course. Please contact your instructor or the Academic Coordinator for the department, before attempting to purchase these books.
| ISBN | Title | Publisher | Author(s) | Comment | Book Store | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Home and the World | Penguin Classics 2005 | Rabindranath Tagore | TBD | |||
| Sultana's Dream | Feminist Press-CUNY | Rokeya Sakhawat | TBD | |||
| Imaginary Maps | Routledge | Mahasweta Devi | TBD | |||
| River of Smoke | Farrar, Straus & Giroux | Amitav Ghosh | TBD |