COLT 1811V - Literature, Modernity and the Islamic Periphery

Institution:

Brown University

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This course will explore the tensions and negotiations of modernity and tradition in Indian and Pakistani Muslim literature from high colonialism to post-coloniality. Beginning with a brief look at the pre-colonial Indo-Muslim literary field, the course will turn to projects of literary reform in the wake of the Great Rebellion of 1857, when Muslims became a special object of attention for the British colonial regime in India. We will then read some literary expressions of the first high moment of pan-Islamism and Indo-Muslim self-assertion in its intersection with literary modernism in the early 20th century. Subsequently, the dramatic impact of social realism at the height of anti-colonial nationalism will be an important focus of the course, as will the traumatic literatures of Partition and the disillusionment with decolonization. All course materials will be in English. No prerequisites.

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1.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.brown.edu

Phone Number:

(401) 863-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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