CULTR ST 742 / Mapping South Asian Masculinities

3 unit(s)

C. Chakraborty (cross-listed as ENGLISH 742)

This course focuses on masculinities in moments of conflict and crisis in South Asia to explore how masculinities are embedded in and enable the operation of large scale political-historical projects/processes such as colonial rule, nation-formation, construction of civil society and religious fundamentalism. Reading South Asian literary and cinematic texts, it will examine masculinities in articulated relation to other social categories: among them, caste, class, religion, ethnicity and sexuality.