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  • AMES 166: Egypt: Mother of the World

    1.00 Credits
    Duke University

    Modern history of Egypt: Napoleon's conquest in 1798, the "Description of Egypt", Orientalist knowledge, the Ottoman Empire, Muhammad Ali, Islamic Reform, the Arab Renaissance, Women's Awakening, the Islamic Revival, Muslim Brotherhood, Arab Nationalism, Gamal Abd al-Nasser, war and peace with Israel, the culture of the petroleum industry, Egyptian cosmopolitanism, Egyptian letters (novel, drama, poetry), Egyptian cinema, mass media, television, and popular culture. Includes an optional voyage to Egypt during the spring vacation. Instructor: McLarney
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  • AMES 167: Trauma and Passion in Korean Culture

    1.00 Credits
    Duke University

    Representations of passion and trauma in Korean society and history through various cultural media including literature, historical texts, autobiographies, film, and other visual media. In dealing with historical traumas such as the Korean War, Japanese colonization, Western imperialism and political upheavals, sub-topics to include war, love, melodrama, nationalism, ideological strife and longing and loss. Instructor: Kwon
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  • AMES 168S: Francophone Literature

    1.00 Credits
    Duke University

    Modern literature in French from French-speaking Africa and the French Caribbean. Topics include tradition and modernity; colonization, cultural assimilation, and the search for identity; and women in changing contexts. Instructor: Staff
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  • AMES 169: China and the West

    1.00 Credits
    Duke University

    Survey course with overview of the pre-nineteenth-century Western contacts with China (for example, the French Physiocrats and European idealization of China, early American and English trade). Focus on nineteenth-century topics such as the Opium Wars, British and French imperialism, the efforts to import western technology into China by Westerners, and twentieth-century matters such as the impact of the Russian Revolution and Euro-American foreign policy towards China, concluding with Nixon's visit to China in 1972 and the re-establishment of Sino-American foreign relations. Instructor: Mazumdar
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  • AMES 170: Indian Cinema

    1.00 Credits
    Duke University

    Sources of vitality in twentieth-century Indian cinema. The resilience of popular cinema in the face of Hollywood. Narrative and non-narrative expressive forms in folk and high culture in India. The work of Guru Dutt, Satyajit Ray, G. Aravindan, and Mani Kaul. Instructor: Khanna
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  • AMES 171: Japanese Cinema

    1.00 Credits
    Duke University

    An introduction to the history of Japanese cinema focusing on issues including the relation between the tradition-modernity or Japan-West in the development of Japanese cinema, the influence of Japanese films on the theory and practice of cinema abroad, and the ways in which cinema has served as a reflection of and an active agent in the transformation of Japanese society. Instructor: Yoda
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  • AMES 172S: Chinese Literature and Culture in Translation

    1.00 Credits
    Duke University

    The transmutation of Chinese culture and literature from the perspective of translation conceived as a broad range of literary and cultural activities, including transactions between cultures, appropriation of a foreign work into a Chinese version, and adaptation of one literary-cultural form into another (such as literature into drama or film). Instructor: Hong
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  • AMES 173S: Gender Jihad: Muslim Women Writers

    1.00 Credits
    Duke University

    Roles and representations of women in Muslim societies of Asia (including Indonesia, South Asia, and the Middle East) and Africa, as well as in Muslim minority societies(including Europe and the United States). Examination of ways writers and filmmakers project images of women in today's Muslim societies. Focus on women as producers of culture and as social critics. Instructor: Cooke
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  • AMES 174: Jerusalem : Past and Present

    1.00 Credits
    Duke University

    Examines relations between the physical and spiritual spaces that make up Jerusalem. Explores the topography, demography, infrastructure, history, and cultures of the city Focuses on the interaction and conflicts between ethnicities, religions, cultures and political entities Studies divergent discourses about the city and examines the relationship between these discourses and the materiality of the city. Instructor: Ginsburg
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  • AMES 175: World of Korean Cinema

    1.00 Credits
    Duke University

    The world of Korean cinema, broadly defined in terms of national, generic, theoretical boundaries, beyond conventional auteur, genre, one-way influence, and national cinema theories. Cinematic texts examined in local, regional, and global contexts and intersections, in conversation with global theories and histories of cinema, visual cultures, and other representational forms. Variable topics informed theoretically and politically by discourses on gender/sexuality, race/ethnicity, global flows of people and cultures, popular and "high" culture crossovers, transnational co-productions, remakes, translations and retellings. No knowledge of Korean language/ culture presumed. Instructor: Kwon
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