Calendar

CALENDAR

UNIT #1: Introduction: South Asia in the Popular Imagination

1.8 Introduction: South Asia as a modern global region

  • William Jones, “A Discourse on the Institution of a Society” (R)
  • Rise of India: clips from Time, Newsweek, and The National Geographic

1.10 Making Worlds: orientalism and its legacies

  • Viewing excerpt from Edward Said on Orientalism (1998 )
  • “India Rising” (R)
  • Recommended: Partha Chatterjee, “Our Modernity” (R)

1.15 Role of the Popular: the colonial imagination

  • Film Clips from Gunga Din (1939) and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) See handout
  • Rudyard Kipling, “Gunga Din” (R)
  • “Popular” from New Keywords (R)

 

UNIT#2: Subject to Reason: Human, Law, and Community

1.17 Becoming Man: making subject, making other

1.22 Rethinking Law: rights and privileges

  • Mahatma Gandhi, “Excerpts from The Story of My Experiments with Truth” (R) Study Guide
  • Salman Rushdie, “Gandhi, Now” (R)
  • Recommended:www.mkgandhi.org

1.22 Screening: Rajkumar Hirani, Lage Raho Munna Bhai (2006)5:00 – 8:00 p.m. Harold Frank Hall 1104 (guide)

1.24 Revising Rules: forming community

  • Judith Brown, “The Mahatma in Modern India” (R)
  • Recommended: “Bollywood Rising” issue of Film Comment, excerpts (R)
  • Discussion of film

UNIT#3:

Outward Bound: In the Concert of Nations

1.29 Political Community: Introduction to Pakistan

  • Sara Suleri, Meatless Days (R)
    • MIDTERM (SHORT ID IN CLASS EXAM)

    1.31 Costs of Nation: the daughter’s story

    • Meatless Days continued.
    • Recommended: Susan Koshy, “Mother-Country and Fatherland” (R)

    2.5 Costs of nation: legacies

    • Meatless Days continued.
    • Introducing Arundhati Roy
    • MIDTERM (TAKE HOME ESSAYS DUE)

    2.7 Screening: Franny Armstrong, Drowned Out (2002) 6:30- 8:00 p.m. Buchanan 1940

    2.7 Rethinking Progress: criticizing economic development

    • Arundhati Roy’s The Cost of Living
    • Clip from Anant Patwardhan’s Jung Aur Aman (War and Peace)
    • Recommended: The Unauthorized Arundhati Roy (www.weroy.org)

    2.12 Back to the jungle: environmental justice

    • Discussion of film
    • Cost of Living continued.
    • Ramachandra Guha, “The Environmentalism of the Poor” (R)

    UNIT#4:

    Tuning In: the Reign of the Guru

    2.14 The Mystic East: music, counterculture, Nepal

    2.19 The Other Nepal: struggle for democracy

    • Samrat Upadhyay, “Royal Ghosts” (R)
    • News item on Nepal’s democracy movement (R)

    2.21 The Guru: marketing spirituality

    • Gita Mehta, Excerpts from Karma Cola (R)

    2.25 Screening: Daisy von Scherler Mayr The Guru (2002) 5:30-7:00 p.m. Buchanan 1910

    2.26 Consumption and Identity: the guru within

    • Discussion of the film
    • Recommended: Jigna Desai, “Between Hollywood and Bollywood” (R)

    UNIT#5:

    Home in the World: crossings in a borderless world?

    2.28 Ethnic cuisine: cosmopolitan narratives of self and world

    • David Bell and Gina Valentine, “Nation”
    • Introducing Madhur Jaffrey

    3.4 Cultural Translation: the cookbook

    • Madhu Jaffrey, Quick and Easy Indian Cooking

    3.6 Resident Alien: increasing difference

    • Viewing ‘Badla” episode from The X-Files (Season Eight)
    • PAPER/PROJECT DUE IN CLASS

    3.11 Contaminations: accountability and redress

    • Discussion of X-Files episode
    • Excerpt from Litigating Disaster
    • News item on the Bhopal tragedy

    3.13 The World in the Home: disjuncture and difference

    • Viewing of Call Center movie
    • Excerpt from Arundhati Roy on Call Centers
    • Conclusions

    FINAL EXAM FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 4-7 P.M.