WGSS 327a - mmes 311a,Constructing the Self:From Autobiography to Facebook

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Yale University

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Geetanjali Singh Chanda. t 1.30-3.20 WRHu (0) Autobiography in its evolving form as literary genre, historical archive, and individual and community narrative in a changing geographical context. Women's life stories from Afghanistan, China, Cambodia, Indonesia, India, Iran, Egypt, Jordan, and Vietnam illustrate the dialectic relationship between the global and the local. What the reading and writing of autobiographies reveal about oneself and one's place in society; how it can be considered a horizontal community formation. wgss 328b/ er&m 328b, Popular Culture and Postcolonial India. Geetanjali Singh Chanda. t 1.30-3.20 WRHu (0) A study of films and literature of South Asians living, working, and directing in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Questions of commercial populism, authenticity, and postcolonial identity. wgss 337b/ clcv 214b/ hums 278b/ litr 225b/ mgrk 202b, The Poetry of C. P. Cavafy. George Syrimis. For description see under Hellenic Studies.

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3.00

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www.yale.edu

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(203) 432-4771

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New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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