[lith] HS The Lives of Princes and Outcastes: Documenting Disadvantage and Privilege in India (Transcultural Anglophone Studies) - Einzelansicht

HS: “The Lives of Princes and Outcastes: Documenting Disadvantage and Privilege in India”

Do. 14-16, Geb. C5 3, R. 1.20,

Excursion to selected museums, and block seminar.

Tutorial: Cristina Cusidó-Bayo
Do. 13-14 c. t., Geb. C5 3, R. 4.08

If there are two images that tend to dominate concepts of India they are surely those of an elite royalty as against the impoverished low-castes. In this seminar we will be approaching these two aspects of Indian life in a variety of ways that include reading a pair of contemporary autobiographies, one by a Maharani, Vijayaraje Scindia, titled Princess, the other text, Karukku, is the testimony of Bama, a writer who became a Catholic nun in her attempt to escape from the stigma of her status as an untouchable woman. Further, we will be looking at Mira Nair’s documentary film, Salaam Bombay, about the street children of Mumbai, alongside the Ivory/Merchant feature film, Autobiography of a Princess, with its authentic footage of princely India. This textual palette is rounded off by Aravind Adiga’s 2008 Booker Prize-winning, yet rather controversially received novel, The White Tiger.

In order to gain more immediate access to the world/s forming the focus of this seminar we will be visiting specialist museums in London and Oxford. The excursion forms an integral part of the seminar and will take place most likely from 18^th – 21^th January 2013.

These interrelated approaches will be complemented by a workshop (block seminar on Thursday) towards the end of the term, in which experts on the topic of autobiographical writing and film-making in an Indian context will provide us with further insights into these fields of work.

Please obtain your own copies of the texts mentioned above. Materials will either be placed in the Semesterapparat (IB) or, if otherwise inaccessible, be made available in CLIX.

Participation
Regular attendance of all sessions including the excursion and workshop block seminar; thorough acquaintance with all the material listed above before the first session; individual research on a relevant topic of your choice for short oral presentations / group work, followed by a term paper (7500 words, in MLA format) on a research-oriented topic. Please check the TAS website under "Your Studies" for further details about oral presentation and essay writing modalities.

Please contact m.ghosh@mx.uni-saarland.de for further details.

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