Gender and Sexualities in South Asian Literature and Film

4 credits · Undergraduate

The purpose of this course is to examine how gender forms an important critical lens through which South Asia can be studied. Through a focus on literary and visual texts, this course will interrogate how gender forms an important component in the social and cultural construction of the self and community in South Asia through an exploration of perspectives on genders, bodies and sexualities and their historical, cultural and social and political dimensions.