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Course description:
In this course we will read powerful South Asian feminist and anti-caste literatures. We will explore how writers on the margins imagined new worlds and radical forms of equality from within unequal and challenging circumstances. We will focus, in particular, on the imagination as a tool for revolutionary change. Our goal is to investigate what ideas of the literary these writers produce and what we can extrapolate from these texts for larger conversations about resistance and literary culture. These foci are designed to help you develop the skills to work with and write about culturally specific texts for a global audience.
Career Readiness: Employers have identified eight Career Readiness CompetenciesLinks to an external site. they view as essential for student success in internships and post-graduation roles. This course will help you develop the following essential competencies: communication, critical thinking and equity and inclusion. Learn more about gaining and articulating your skills by visiting the Build Career Readiness Competencies page on the UW Career & Internship Center website.
Course goals:
This course will enable you to:
- Understand, evaluate and use the following key concepts: imagination, subaltern, caste, gender and Dalit.
- Develop basic knowledge of modern South Asia and the ability to contextualize South Asian writing and literature.
- Understand, evaluate and use social categories to study literary texts and non-literary writing.
- Develop analytical and writing skills that can be used outside academic contexts.
- Analyze and work with diverse texts, including academic essays, non-academic narratives and literary texts.
- Identify 3 Career Readiness Competenciesyou developed in this course.