Courses of Study 2013-2014 
    
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Courses of Study 2013-2014 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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NES 4707 - [Writing Muslims: Literature and Film of Muslim Diaspora(s)]

(crosslisted)
(also ENGL 4798 , RELST 4707 )(GHB) (LA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.

Next offered 2014-2015. Co-meets with ENGL 6798 /NES 6707 /RELST 6707 .

S. Toorawa.

How and where does – indeed, can – one write the story of a diaspora of the Muslim creative and critical imagination? How do contem-porary diasporic Muslim writers and filmmakers operate with(in) memory, with the impossible longing to belong, with the loss of ‘home’ (when ‘home’ is where they already are…?) Guided by the critical work of e.g. Ahmed, Erickson, Hawley, Rushdie, and Subramani, we will read the works of e.g. Leila Aboulela, Zulfikar Ghose, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Mohja Kahf, Sorayya Khan, Manzu Islam, Hanif Kureishi, Yasmin Ladha, and others; and watch ‘Bhaji on the Beach,’ ‘My Beautiful Laundrette,’ ‘Surviving Sabu,’ and other films made in Britain and North America. We will critique, evaluate, and enjoy these works through the lens of the diasporic condition, by paying special attention to the effects of displacement and its impact on articulations of faith, history, identity, memory, mythologies, nation(alism), subjugation, the postmodern, and the (post)postcolonial. We will together try to understand how the ‘expatriate’ Muslim writes herself, her world, and her condition. All material in English. (RS)



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