Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Partition in South Asia
Term
2024C
Subject area
COML
Section number only
401
Section ID
COML7760401
Course number integer
7760
Meeting times
M 1:45 PM-4:44 PM
Meeting location
BENN 112
Level
graduate
Instructors
Suvir Kaul
Sara Kazmi
Sara Kazmi
Description
This course examines the ways in which imaginative literature and film have addressed the difficult sociopolitical issues leading up to, and following from, the independence and partition of British India. Looking to theoretical and political debates, novels, short stories, poetry, and some films, this course will acknowledge the continuing role played by the events of Partition in shaping the cultural, social, and political realities of contemporary South Asia.
Course number only
7760
Cross listings
ENGL7760401, SAST7760401
Use local description
No