Asian Languages & Civilization 207 - Home and the World

Fall
2019
01
4.00
Krupa Shandilya
TTH 08:30AM-09:50AM
Amherst College
ASLC-207-01-1920F
CONV 209
kshandilya@amherst.edu
SWAG-207-01,ASLC-207-01,POSC-207-01

(Offered as SWAG 207, ASLC 207, and POSC 207) 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?

Fall semester. Professor Shandilya.

Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.