To introduce students to south Asian literature and culture from the long 20th century. To give the students analytic insight into south Asian modernity and its relation with (often reinvented) tradition. To enable students to write concise research papers on these subjects in the context of a globalizing world.
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Around 1900 onwards the world changed profoundly as a result of ongoing globalization and foreign influences - not only from the West. Writers and thinkers sought ways to relate to the great changes around them. In this course, students explore how south Asian cultures (India and her neighbouring countries) give an account of modernity, in light of their own (whether or not reinvented) traditions and the influence of imperialism, nationalism and globalization. The literature and writers from South Asia - India and its neighbouring countries - reflect often discursive tensions between modernity and tradition; their work will be central to this course.
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