INDIAN WRITERS ABROAD: LITERATURE, DIASPORA AND GLOBALIZATION

ARTHIST/ASIAN 428

Concentrates on image complexes (art, photography, and cinema) and visual environments (architecture, urban planning, and public rituals) of India; examination of visual culture through thematic issues such as, sexuality, patronage, cultural encounter, transculturation, ways of viewing, modernism, and nationalism. Not open to students with credit for LCA 428 prior to Fall 2019.

ASIAN/LITTRANS 212

Surveys the classical literatures of South Asia, from ancient origins to adaptations in the modern world. Includes poetry, prose, and drama translated into English from Persian, Prakrit, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, Hindi/Urdu, and other languages. Examines the relationship between literature in theory, in practice, and politics.

ASIAN 403

An introduction to the societies, politics and cultures of Southeast Asia through modern literature. Fiction, testimony, poetry and ephemeral materials will be read alongside literary analysis to understand the roles of writing and art in social and political transformation. Topics will include revolution and uprising; violence and war; environment, migration and displacement; gender and sexuality; censorship and what cannot be written; and cities, the countryside and the spaces between them. Not open to students with credit for LCA 403 prior to Fall 2018

ASIAN/COMARTS 443

India is home to one of the largest film industries in the world, Bollywood. Beyond Bollywood, India has a thriving film culture that caters to its many regional languages. Explore India's diverse, yet interconnected film and media cultures as well as the global resonances of Indian- and South-Asian-inflected media elsewhere. Examine questions of diasporic identity through media produced by the South Asian American community. Consider questions of genre, style and auteurship, ethnicity, decolonization, gender non-conformity, caste, settler colonialism, censorship and linguistic nationalism that shape cinematic discourses in the country and its intersection with South Asian diaspora in the United States.

ENGL/THEATRE 477

Study of the drama and theatre of a variety of immigrant communities in three Western locations: Britain, the United States, and Canada. Focuses on current theories of diaspora and transnationalism, the place of theatre in diasporic writing, and the literary, performative, and material dimensions of the genre.