General information

Course name	Seminar: 10-76-4-D2/WD2-14 Key Topics in Literature: (Post)Colonial Texts and Contexts: Literature on South and Southeast Asia
Subtitle
Course number	10-76-4-D2/WD2-14
Semester	SoSe 2025
Current number of participants	5
expected number of participants	35
Home institute	Anglistik/Amerikanistik
Courses type	Seminar in category Teaching
First date	Monday, 16.06.2025 10:15 - 15:45, Room: FVG O0150 (Seminarraum)
Type/Form
Englischsprachige Veranstaltung	Ja

Lecturers

Dr. Marijke Denger (LB)

Rooms and times

FVG O0150 (Seminarraum): Monday, 16.06.2025 10:15 - 15:45
Tuesday, 17.06.2025 10:15 - 14:00
Wednesday, 18.06.2025 - Thursday, 19.06.2025 10:15 - 15:45
Friday, 20.06.2025 09:15 - 12:45
GW2 B1700: Tuesday, 17.06.2025 14:00 - 16:00

Module assignments

Comment/Description

Course Description
South and Southeast Asia are regions comprising a tantalising variety of peoples, languages, customs and religions, spread out across a number of ‘multicultural’ societies and emerging economies. The wider area has been shaped by a long history of European (colonial) presence, wartime occupation and, in several states, post-independence dictatorial regimes. In one way or another, the region has also always been part of the multifaceted dynamics nowadays associated with the term globalisation. In this seminar, we will engage with a variety of historical and contemporary literary texts produced in or about several locations in South and Southeast Asia, examining them in conjunction with some of the key concerns raised by the field of postcolonial studies. Analysing classic colonial fiction as well as more recent engagements with the area, we will explore such diverse issues as individual identity formation, the (state-sanctioned) construction of self and other, notions of home and belonging and the role of the past for the present and future of a number of rapidly changing and highly diverse societies.

Novels to be Discussed
• E.M. Forster, A Passage to India (1924; Penguin Classics edition)
• Wendy Law-Yone, The Road to Wanting (Chatto & Windus, 2010)
• Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors (Canongate, 2023)
It would be ideal if students could acquire these as soon as possible after signing up for the course.
Further shorter materials, including secondary literature, short stories and poems, will be made available for the students online.

Registration mode

After enrolment, participants will manually be selected.

Potential participants are given additional information before enroling to the course.

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