ClassInfo - Spring 2018 Asian Languages and Literature Classes

Spring 2018 | ALL 3637W Section 001: Modern Indian Literature (67519)

Instructor(s): Suvadip Sinha
Class Component:: Lecture
Credits:: 3 Credits
Grading Basis:: A-F or Audit
Instructor Consent:: No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:: In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:: UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:: Regular Academic Session

01/16/2018 - 05/04/2018

Mon, Wed 09:45AM - 11:00AM

UMTC, East Bank

Folwell Hall 12
Enrollment Status:: Open (23 of 30 seats filled)

Course Catalog Description:: Survey of 20th century literature from South Asian countries, including India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. All readings in English. Focuses on colonialism, post-colonialism, power, and representation.
Class Description:: This course will introduce students to some significant moments and issues in modern Indian literatures and history since mid nineteenth century. The texts are taken from several geographic and linguistic corners of India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Originally written in various South Asian languages like Urdu, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, etc., they address specific cultural and social issues of respective regions. The course will teach a large number of writers because of their unique importance within the canons of vernacular literatures from the region. Their writings will not only familiarize the students with the cultural milieu of the Indian sub-continent but also with various threads of social, political and historical developments in the region. The literary readings will be accompanied with discussions on important historical phases like the colonial rule and freedom movements; and socio-political issues such as regional identity, caste and language politics, gender and sexuality. We will accomplish this through a sustained engagement with prominent thinkers and writers like Gandhi, Muhammad Iqbal, Rabindranath Tagore, B.R. Ambedkar and Mahasweta Devi.
Grading:: A-F
Exam Format:: No Exam
Class Format:: Lecture
Workload:: Two Short Response Papers; One Mid-term Project; One Final Essay
Textbooks:: https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67519/1183
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:: 3 November 2015

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