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140169 PS Pakistani Literature (2017S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 14 - Orientalistik, Afrikanistik, Indologie und Tibetologie
Continuous assessment of course work

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max. 36 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Tuesday 07.03. 11:45 - 13:15 Seminarraum 6 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-37
  • Tuesday 14.03. 11:45 - 13:15 Seminarraum 6 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-37
  • Tuesday 21.03. 11:45 - 13:15 Seminarraum 6 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-37
  • Tuesday 28.03. 11:45 - 13:15 Seminarraum 6 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-37
  • Tuesday 04.04. 11:45 - 13:15 Seminarraum 6 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-37
  • Tuesday 25.04. 11:45 - 13:15 Seminarraum 6 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-37
  • Tuesday 02.05. 11:45 - 13:15 Seminarraum 6 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-37
  • Tuesday 09.05. 11:45 - 13:15 Seminarraum 6 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-37
  • Tuesday 16.05. 11:45 - 13:15 Seminarraum 6 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-37
  • Tuesday 23.05. 11:45 - 13:15 Seminarraum 6 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-37
  • Tuesday 30.05. 11:45 - 13:15 Seminarraum 6 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-37
  • Tuesday 13.06. 11:45 - 13:15 Seminarraum 6 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-37
  • Tuesday 20.06. 11:45 - 13:15 Seminarraum 6 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-37
  • Tuesday 27.06. 11:45 - 13:15 Seminarraum 6 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-37

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Aims, contents and method of the course

Pakistan was carved out of India in 1947 and in that way Pakistani literature should be treated as a tributary to Indian. But, did Pakistani literature written in at least 9 major languages in the country succeed, over the years, in evolving its distinct identity? If so, what are the main contours of this literature? What moments in the socio-political history of the country did contribute to provide impulses to it and what ways and means successive governments in Pakistan have been employing to streamline and control it? With these and other relevant questions the course is designed to provide a trajectory of Pakistani literature written in five major languages, that is, Urdu, Punjabi, Sindhi, Balochi, and English in their history and across their thematic spectrum.
The following topics, among others, will be under focus:
• Iqbal – The Poet-Ideologue
• The Question of Pakistani Culture and Debates of Pakistani Literature
• State and Literature: Of Patronage and Streamlining
• Debates of Islamic Literature vs. Secular Trends
• Literature and Political Resistance: Pakistani Literature and/under Martial Law Regimes.
• Literature by Pakistani Women: From Social Conformism to Political Empowerment
• Creation of Bangladesh: Literary Responses from Pakistan.
• Pakistani Literature in Diaspora
• 9/11 – Responses from Pakistani Literature
In addition to that introductions to/ special studies of 5 major Pakistani writers will be made.

Assessment and permitted materials

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Examination topics

Reading list

Select Bibliography:
• Ahmad, Rukhsana (1990) We Sinful Women: Contemporary Urdu Feminist Poetry. (ed.) London: The Women’s Press.
• Ahmad, Aijaz (1993) In the Mirror of Urdu: Recomposition of Nation and Community, 1947- 1965. Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study.
• Ali, Abu Bakar (2012) Agency and its Discontents: Nationalism and Gender in the Work of Pakistani Women. London: King’s College. [Thesis Submitted for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy]
Available at: https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/files/12373274/Studentthesis-Abu_Ali_2012.pdf. Accessed: 20.03.2016. 18.52
• Anantharam, Anita (2009). Engendering the Nation: Women, Islam, and Poetry in Pakistan. Journal of International Women's Studies. 11(1), 208-224.
Available at: http://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol11/iss1/14. Accessed: 20.03.2016. 18.42
• Arif, Iftikhar. (2002) Pakistani Literature: New English Writings from Pakistan. (c. ed.) Vol.7, Winter. No 1. Islamabad: Pakistan Academy of Letters.
• Arif, Iftikhar. (2005) Selections from Pakistani Literature: Book One – Poetry (c. ed.) Vol.9, Winter. No 2. Islamabad: Pakistan Academy of Letters.
• Arif, Iftikhar. (2005) Selections from Pakistani Literature: Book Two – Prose (c. ed.) Vol.10, Winter. No 1. Islamabad: Pakistan Academy of Letters.
• Arif, Iftikhar. (2005) Selections from Pakistani Literature: Book Three – Prose (c. ed.) Vol.10, Winter. No 2. Islamabad: Pakistan Academy of Letters.
• Farrukhi, Asif (2006) Pakistani Literature or Pakistan's Literatures: The issue of Identity in Literature from Pakistan (Unpublished/read on Wednesday 21 July in International Workshop “Between State Ideology and Popular Culture: Urdu Literature and Urdu Media in Contemporary Pakistan” IWH Heidelberg, 20-22 July, 2006)
• Kanwal, Aroosa, (2015) Rethinking Identities in Contemporary Pakistani Fiction: Beyond 9/11 London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Association in the course directory

BA14

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