SCHEDULE OF ASSIGNMENTS (subject to change)
April 11
- Vijay Mishra, ‘The Diasporic Imaginary’
- Gayatri Gopinath, Introduction: Impossible Desires
- Vijay Prashad, The Karma of Brown Folk, 1-84 and 157-184
April 18
- Tejaswini Niranjana, ‘Left to the Imagination: Indian Nationalism and Female Sexuality’
- Shani Mootoo, Cereus Blooms at Night
- In-Class Film Screening: Chutney in Yuh Soca
April 25
- View film before class: Deepa Mehta, Fire
- Richa Nagar, ‘Communal Discourses, Marriage, and the Politics of Gendered Social Boundaries’
- Chandra Mohanty, ‘Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses’
May 2
Please show up on time! We will only meet from 1230-130, and then attend a roundtable with Vijay Prashad on the state of left politics. Later at 5pm, Prashad will talk about his new book on global right-wing populism.
- Sandip Roy, ‘Curry Queens and Other Spices’
- Leah Lakshmi Piepza-Samarasinha, selections from Bodymaps
- DarkMatter videos (‘When Brown Looks in the Mirror…,’ ‘Trans/Generation,’ ‘Corporate Tax’)
- ‘#SariNotSorry: An Interview with Kareem Khubchandani/LaWhore Vagistan’
- At 130pm: Attend roundtable on the future of the Left
May 9
- View film before class: Mira Nair, Mississippi Masala
- Ronak Kapadia, ‘Sonic Contagions: Bird Flu, Bandung, and the Queer Cartographies of MIA’
- Nitasha Sharma, Selection from Hip Hop Desis
May 16
- Thesis, outline, and bibliography due on Canvas site by 5pm
- No seminar meeting (tentative)
May 23
- Gayatri Gopinath, ‘Bollywood Spectacles: Queer Diasporic Critique after 9/11’
- Jasbir Puar, ‘Abu Ghraib and US Sexual Exceptionalism’
- Deepa Kumar, ‘Islamophobia: A Bipartisan Project‘
May 30
- 10 page draft of writing due
- Workshop first drafts in class
June 6
- Course conclusion and final paper presentations, location TBA
June 13 (no meeting)
- Final research paper due