Advanced Paper

Ethnicity, Borders and the Nation

Source: 

• ‘Ethnicity in an Age of Diaspora’ by R. Radhakrishnan

(from Braziel & Mannur’s edited Theorizing Diaspora: A Reader)  

• ‘The Diaspora Zeroes in on the Borders’

(from Jasbir Jain’s The Diaspora Writes Home: Subcontinental Narratives)

• ‘Movements and Migrations’

(from Edward W. Said’s Culture and Imperialism)                              

Childhood, Family and Identity

Source: 

• ‘Writing Home: Memory, History and Imagined Spaces’

(from Jasbir Jain’s The Diaspora Writes Home…)

• ‘Reconstructing Time and Experience: Variations on the Theme of Dislocation’ by Tej N. Dhar

(from Jasbir Jain’s edited Dislocations and Multiculturalisms )

• ‘Introduction’ to ‘Youth and the Evolution of Identity’

(from Erik H. Erikson’s Childhood and Society)

Terrorism, Conflict and Dislocation

Source: 

• ‘The Collapse of “Cultural Maps”: Terrorism in Asian Literature’

(from Usha Bande’s Culture, Nature and Literature)

• ‘Aesthetics of Dislocation and Dislocation of Aesthetics’ by Santosh Gupta

(from Jasbir Jain’s edited Dislocations and Multiculturalisms)

• ‘The Civilization of Clashes’

(from Arjun Appadurai’s Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger)

Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner (2003), A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007), and And the Mountains Echo (2013)

Nadeem Aslam’s Maps for Lost Lovers (2004), The Wasted Vigil (2008) and The Blind Man’s Garden (2013)