2012-2013 Catalog 
    
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2012-2013 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

IIS  110 PZ - (Mis)Representations of Near East and South Asia

This course will focus on the literature and cinema of South Asia and the Middle East. By 1914, the British Empire had colonized almost 85 percent of the world, bringing diverse cultural traditions under the encyclopedic gaze of Western modernity. If part of the project of the colonial apparatus was to collect knowledge of the world in ways that bodies, cultures, and landscapes could be understood and ordered by the West, contemporary societies are now negotiating their own means of self-representation in the often violent space of post-colonial rupture. Throughout the term, we will work with texts and visual images produced out of, and in response to, the history of the colonial encounter with attention to representations of gender and sexuality, violence and terrorism, class structures, and migration.

Offered: Occasionally

Credit: 1

Course Number: IIS 110 PZ