ABOUT THE COURSE:The course will acquaint students with the major literary works and cinema that were created in the wake of the Partition of India (1947). It looks into the ways Partition is captured through feminist interpretations by different authors and historians. The gamut of artworks selected for the course helps in understanding how the apocalyptic event affected the everyday lives of the common people. The initial classes will be devoted to explaining the historical events that led to the cracking of the Indian subcontinent.
Partition of India in Print Media and Cinema
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee and NPTEL via Swayam
Overview
Syllabus
Week 1: History of the Partition of India
Week 2:History and Memory
Week 3:Rural imagination of the Nation and National Events
Week 4:Womanhood and motherhood
Week 5:Woman in the Context of Partition
Week 6:Accounts of the Survivor
Week 7:Home and Nostalgia
Week 8:Displaced People, Abandoned Homes
Week 9:Refugee, Desh and Nation
Week 10:Refugee Woman and Patriarchal Society
Week 11:Partition Literature in the 21st Century
Week 12:Immigrant Populace in the Diaspora
Taught by
Prof. Sarbani Banerjee
