ENGL 3530 - Imagining India, Home and Diaspora

(crosslisted) ASIAN 3368
(GB) (LA-AS, GLC-AS) (EC-SAP)

Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.

S. Mohanty.

A modern country and an ancient civilization, India has been imagined through the ages in many different ways. This introductory course focuses on the 20th and 21st centuries, drawing on films (Bollywood and Hollywood), TV shows, music, novels, and political thought. Readings from Gandhi, Ambedkar, Tagore, Kipling, Forster, Premchand, Senapati, Manto, Ananthamurthy and Roy as well as such diasporic writers as Rushdie, Lahiri, and Naipaul.