Through a selection of key movies and texts – fictional and non-fictional – we will examine the construction and negotiation of cultural and social identities of South Asian Americans; the ways in which the post-1965 immigration transformed the face of Asian America, posing new theoretical questions about identity and politics as well as about the concept of hybrid identity and diaspora.
This course pays particular attention to the ways in which South Asian Americans negotiate social forces and their complex cultural identities within their everyday lives and how these negotiations are represented in movies made by South Asian film directors or dealing with these topics such as The Namesake (2006) and What's Cooking (2000). |
