Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality 250 - Colloquium: Remembering, Mourning, & (Re)writing Wars

Why do changemakers find it critical to remember, mourn, and (re)write wars, partitions, and historical trauma? How do they mobilize this work to build alternative futures? This course centers a wide range of texts, with an eye toward opening up the meanings of war, remembering, mourning, writing, performing, and reimagining. As well, these texts offer dreams and languages of justice and liberation that defy pregiven separations among the intellectual, political, psychic, and spiritual. The course examines how these narrations and visions are contoured by temporal and spatial specificities of caste, race, gender, sexuality, religion, language, queerness, diaspora, and colonialism. Enrollment limited to 18.