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Listed in: Asian Languages and Civilizations, as ASLC-51 | Film and Media Studies, as FAMS-30
Krupa Shandilya (Section 01)
(Offered as WAGS 66, ASLC 51, and FAMS 30-01.) Do you often wonder why some countries are referred to as the “motherland” and others as the “fatherland”? What and who decides how we refer to a country? In this course, we will examine seismic changes over time in gendered imaginings of the Indian subcontinent. As women stepped out of the domestic sphere to participate in the nationalist struggle of the late 19th century, the idea of the nation swayed dramatically between the nation as wife and the nation as mother in the Indian popular imagination. Readings will include novels such as Rabindranath Tagore’s Home and the World and Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things. We will also study a range of cinematic texts from the classic Mother India to the recent feminist film Silent Waters.
Limited to 20 students. Fall semester. Professor Shandilya.
If Overenrolled: contact instructor
Cost: 25.00 ?