AP/HND3600 3.0 A: Self-Identified Female Literary Activism
Offered by: HND
Session
Fall 2025
Term
F
Format
ONLN (Fully Online)
Instructor
Calendar Description / Prerequisite / Co-Requisite
This course introduces students to literary, performative, artistic and filmic expressions of self-identified women from South Asia and the South Asian diaspora. We investigate the conditions under which activists emerge often from marginalized spaces and are received in an often male-dominated public sphere. As we interrogate the categories 'self-identified'/'woman' from an intersectional lens, we discuss how writers, artists, activists and filmmakers in the past and present explore and negotiate gender identities and roles. Apart from engaging with literature, art and film, we build and solidify our understanding of specific terminology used in academic and popular discourses such as queer, feminist, environmental, de-colonial and global activism.The primary sources (fictional and non-fictional) cover a variety of literary genres including the novel, short story, essay, poetry and auto-fiction as well as art works and movies. They are accompanied by scholarly essays. All course materials are either in the English original or available in English translation. Knowledge of Hindi and/or Urdu is not required.Course credit exclusion: AS/HND 3600 3.00
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