COML013 - Intro Modrn S.Asia Lit: New Literatures of Resistance and Representations

Status
X
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Intro Modrn S.Asia Lit: New Literatures of Resistance and Representations
Term
2021A
Subject area
COML
Section number only
401
Section ID
COML013401
Course number integer
13
Registration notes
Course Online: Synchronous Format
Meeting times
CANCELED
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Gregory Goulding
Description
This course will provide a wide-ranging introduction to the literatures of South Asia from roughly 1500 to the present, as well as an exploration of their histories and impact on South Asian society today. How are literary movements and individual works - along with the attitudes towards religion, society, and culture associated with them - still influential in literature, film, and popular culture? How have writers across time and language engaged with questions of caste, gender, and identity? We will read from the rich archive of South Asian writing in translation - from languages that include Braj, Urdu, Bangla, and Tamil - to consider how these literatures depict their own society while continuing to resonate across time and space. Topics of dicussion will include the Bhakti poetries of personal devotion, the literature of Dalits - formerly referred to as the Untouchables - and the ways in which literature addresses contemporary political and social problems. Students will leave this course with a sense of the contours of the literatures of South Asia as well as ways of exploring the role of these literatures in the larger world. No prior knowledge of South Asia is required. Fulfills Cross Cultural Analysis requirement.
INSTRUCTOR: GREGORY GOULDLING
Course number only
013
Cross listings
SAST007401
Fulfills
Arts & Letters Sector
Cross Cultural Analysis
Use local description
Yes