Understanding Diaspora...

Name: Understanding Diaspora...
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Diasporic Literature

Created byIndulekha Radhakrishnan

Last updated 8/2019

English

What you'll learn

Selected Diasporic Literary Works of authors from various nationalities.

Course content

1 section • 5 lectures • 1h 3m total length

Introduction12:31
This lecture serves as an introduction to the course and it will give the students an idea about the outline of the course.
postcard from kashmir by agha shahid ali16:54
This lecture gives the students an overview of about the diasporic writer Agha Shahid Ali and his splendid poem Postcard From Kashmir.
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Mother Tongue by Amy Tan8:58
This lecture will help the students to gain knowledge about the versatile author Amy Tan and her widely discussed personal essay Mother Tongue.
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At The Lahore Karhai by Imtiaz Dharker10:12
This lecture gives the students an opportunity to get acquainted with the poem At the Lahore Karhai by Imtiaz Dharker.
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Indian Movie, New Jersey by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni14:53
This lecture will help the students to get an in depth idea about the poem Indian Movie, New Jersey by the eloquent poet Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.
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Requirements

Interest in literature...

Description

This course aims at giving students an introduction to diasporic literature. It also gives the learners an opportunity to know more about the works of Amy Tan, Agha Shahid Ali, Imtiaz Dharker and Chitra Divakaruni. It is specially designed for college students. This is a painstaking effort to critically examine the contemporary issues related to identity crisis, hybrid identity and the complex process of identity formation of the immigrants residing in a foreign country leaving their homeland behind.

Who this course is for:

College Students