War, Divide and Cultural Identity in Contemporary Diasporic Writing

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ENG 144 (b) - Option 16

Unit I

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)

Unit II

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)

Unit III

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)

Unit IV

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

Unit V

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

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Recommended Reading:

Ali, Tariq. The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity. Verso, 2002.

Braziel, Jana Evans and Anita Mannur. Theorizing Diaspora: A Reader. Blackwell Publishing, 2003.

Cohen, Robin. Global Diasporas: An Introduction. 2nd edition. Routledge, 2008.

Fromm, Erich. The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness. Holt et al., 1973.

Lavie, Smader and Ted Swedenburg. Eds. ‘Introduction’. DisplacementDiaspora and Geographies of Identity. Durham: Duke University, 1996.

Mishra, Sudesh. Diaspora Criticism. Edinburgh UP, 2006.

 

Mishra, Vijay. ‘Diasporas and the Art of Impossible Mourning’, in In Diaspora; Theories, Histories, Texts. Ed. Makarand Paranjape. Indialog Publications, 2001. 24-51. 

Mukherjee, Arun. Oppositional Aesthetics: Readings from a Hyphenated Space. Tsar, 1994. 

Ricoeur, Paul. Memory, History and Forgetting. Trans. By Kathleen Blamey and David Pallauer University of Chicago Press, 2004. 

Rushdie, Salman. Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991. Granta, 1991, 

Safran, William. ‘Diasporas in Modern Societies: Myths of Homeland and Return’. Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies. 1: 1 (Spring 1991) 83-99.

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