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Migrated Women's Literature

By Prof.Sadaf Fareed   |   Women's college AMU
Learners enrolled: 611   |  Exam registration: 42
ABOUT THE COURSE:
Writings by the diaspora writers have their own unique character, wherein the writer represents two cultures along with various feelings of nostalgia, rootlessness, displacement, quest for new identity and also re-rooting. This paper focuses on the texts by women-diapsora-writers. Migrant (Diasporic) women are victims of double disadvantage- being women and being migrants. They write differently from their male counterparts- both in terms of perspectives and the manner of narration. It is this writings by migrant Women from various parts of the world- that will be the primary focus of study in this Course.

INTENDED AUDIENCE: UG,PG,Ph.D.,NET,JRF

INDUSTRY SUPPORT: Central University of Kerala, University of Hyderabad, TISS Mumbai, Central University of Gujarat, The University of Texas at Austin, SOAS University of London, Carleton University, University of Toronto etc.
Summary
Course Status : Ongoing
Course Type : Elective
Language for course content : English
Duration : 12 weeks
Category :
  • English
Credit Points : 4
Level : Undergraduate/Postgraduate
Start Date : 20 Jan 2025
End Date : 11 Apr 2025
Enrollment Ends : 03 Feb 2025
Exam Registration Ends : 28 Feb 2025
Exam Date : 25 Apr 2025 IST

Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.

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Course layout

Week 1:
  1. Understanding Diaspora, Migration and the related terms- I
  2. Understanding Diaspora, Migration and the related terms- II
  3. Migration-Why and How
  4.  Migration and Identity: Poetics and Politics
  5. Migration, Identity and Diasporic Literature
Week 2:
  1. Migration and Literature
  2. Migrant Women and Literature
  3. Language and Migration
  4. Gender and Literature -I
  5. Gender and Literature- II
Week 3:
  1. Language and Gender - I
  2. Language and Gender - II
  3. Indian Diaspora- Types and Phases- I
  4. Indian Diaspora- Types and Phases- II
  5. Migration and Multiculturalism
Week 4:
  1. Migration and Multiculturalism
  2. Sociology of Migration
  3. Sociology of Migration
  4. Economics of Migration
  5. Indian Migration to Developed Nations-I
Week 5:
  1. Indian Migration to Developed Nations-II
  2. South Asian Diaspora to Canada
  3. South Asian Diasporic Writing
  4. South Asian Drama in Canada
  5. Reading Drama- Uma Parmeswaran
Week 6:
  1. Reading Drama- Sons Must Die
  2. Reading Drama- Sons Must Die- II
  3. Discussing Poetry
  4. A Letter for Home - Himani Banerjee
  5. A Letter for Home - Himani Banerjee
Week 7:
  1. Letter to Prospective Immigrant - Laxmi Gill
  2. Tarfiya Faizullah +1971
  3. Tarfiya Faizullah +1971-II
  4. The Terrorist at My Table - Imtiaz Dharker
  5. The Terrorist at My Table - Imtiaz Dharker-II
Week 8:
  1. Glass Coffins- Suniti Namjoshi
  2. Reading Short Stories
  3. Gold Mountain Coat – Judy Fong Bates
  4. “Tilled Earth” –Manjushree Thapa
  5. “Tilled Earth” -II
Week 9:
  1. Understanding Memoir
  2. Peggy Mohan- Jahajin Overview, Characters, Themes
  3. A historico-cultural perspective of Diaspora in Jahajin- Peggy Mohan – II
  4. Zoroastrian Diaspora: An Overview of Zoroastrianism I
  5. Zoroastrian Diaspora: An Overview of Zoroastrianism
Week 10:
  1. Reading Fiction- Bapsi Sidhwa
  2. Reading Fiction- An American Brat – I
  3. Reading Fiction- An American Brat – II
  4. An American Brat: III
  5. African Diaspora
  6. African Novel-I
Week 11:
  1. African Novel-II
  2. Women Writers from Africa
  3. “Through the Tunnel” –Doris Lessing
  4. Buchi Emechetta
  5. The Bride Price- Buchi Emecheta
  6. Second Class Citizen-Buchi Emechetta
  7. Second Class Citizen-Buchi Emechetta
Week 12:
  1. Colonialism and South African Apartheid-I
  2. Colonialism and South African Apartheid-II
  3. Sudan and Migration
  4. Leila Aboulela
  5. Something Old Something New- Leila Aboulela
  6. Something Old Something New- Leila Aboulela- II

Books and references

 Essential Readings (excerpts or full articles can be decided by the course instructors)
• Aziz, Nurjehan. Ed. Her Mother’s Ashes and Other Stories by South Asian Women in Canada and United States. TSAR Publications, Canada. 1994. (ONLY INTRODUCTION)
• Bezhan, Faridullah. “Maryam Mahboob and her Short Stories”. Women, War and Islamic Radicalisation in Maryam Mahboob’s Afghanistan. Monash Unievrsity Publishing. 2016.
• Chao, Lien. Cha, Jinn Wong. Ed. Strike the Wok. TSAR Publications, Canada. 2003. (ONLY INTRODUCTION)
• “Introduction: Overseas Emigration in the Nineteenth Century”. Indian Communities Abroad: Themes and Literature. Jain, R. K. Manohar Publishers and Distributers, New Delhi. 1993.
• Narang, Harish. “Piya Gaye Rangoon: Inheritance and Ideology in Diaspora Women’s Writing”. Gender and Narrative. Jain, Jasbir. Agarwal, Supriya. Rawat Publications. 2002.

Suggested Readings (Suggested Readings can be modified by the course instructors)
• Al - Kadhini, Shayna Hadi. Women's Diaspora: A Swing between Two Worlds. Omni Scriptum & Company. 2015.
• Ashcroft, Griffiths and Tiffin, The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post- Colonial Literatures. London: Rout ledge, 1989. 33. Print.
• “Breaking the Circle: Recreating the Immigrant Self in Selected Works of Himani Banerji”. Theorizing and Critiquing Indian Diaspora. Sharma, Kavita. Chakrabarti, Tapas. (ed). Creative Books, New Delhi. 2004.
• Breto , Isabel Alonso. “A Poetics of Disruption”: Farida Karodia’s A Shattering of Silence and the Exiled Writer’s Dihiliz Position. Prague Journal of English Studies Volume 4, No. 1, 2015.
• Cohen, Robin. Global Diasporas: An Introduction. London: Routledge, 2008.
• Faron, Frantz. “From Concerning Violence” in The Wretched of the Earth, included in Black Identity. Ed. Francis Kearns. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 197. 168.Print.
• Hassan, Wail S. “Leila Aboulela and the Ideology of Muslim Immigrant Fiction”. NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction. NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction. Vol. 41, No. 2/3. 2088. pp. 298- 319.
• Jain, Ravindra K. Indian Communities Abroad: Themes and Literature. Manohar Publichers, Delhi. 1993.
• Mcgifford, Diane. The Geography of Voice. TSAR Publications, Canada.1992 Narang,Harish. “You will Flow Back to your Beginnings: Problems of Identity and Aesthetics in Canadian Literature of Indian Diaspora”. Multiculturalism: Canada and India. Dhawan, R. K. Pabby, D. K. (ed). Prestige Books, New Delhi. 2005.
• Rastegar ,Kamran. “Trauma and Maturation in Women's War Narratives: The Eye of the Mirror and Cracking India”. Journal of Middle East Women's Studies. Vol. 2, No. 3. 2006. pp. 22-47. Duke University Press.
• Singh, Gurupdesh. Diasporic Studies : Theory and Literature. Gurunanak Dev University, Amritsar. 2007.
• Thilakarathne, Indeewara. """"""""Diaspora and Diasporic Literature.” Sunday Observer. 2011. Web. 16 Mar. 2012.
• Veviana, Coomy S. Godard, Barbara. Ed. Intersexions. Creative Books, New Delhi. 1996.

• https: //www.newyorker.. con/nagazine/2018/66/04/memoirs -of -disease-and-disbelief
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• https: //ww. jstor .org/stable/408741642seq=1%page scan tab contents
• https ://ww. istor.org/stable/25090048
• https: //literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/intiaz-dharker
• https: //shodhganga. inflibnet .ac.in/bitstrean/10603/148764/9/09%26oveX20and%20protesty 26in%20the%20select20poens¥201 pdf +
• https ://www. academia.edu/10369932/THE PLACE OF NOSTALIGIA IN DIASPORA WRITING HOME AND BELONGING IN THE FICTION OF BHARATI MUKHERJEE

Along with the suggested readings, learners are supposed to read all the primary texts.


Instructor bio

Prof.Sadaf Fareed

Women's college AMU
Dr. Sadaf Fareed is an Assistant Professor in English at the Women's College, Aligarh Muslim University. Her major academic interests are Gender Studies, Diaspora Writings, Dalit Literature and Translation Studies. Dr. Sadaf Fareed has five books to her credit, to name a few, Parsi Diaspora: Expatriate Experience and Nostalgic Discourse, Literary Criticism: An Overview and A View on Postmodern Feminist Writings etc. She has been a part of SWAYAM and ARPIT programmes of the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD). She has several national and international publications to her credit and has been an active participant in various seminars and conferences of repute. Dr. Sadaf Fareed has been actively contributing articles to some reputed newspapers also. Her writings specially focus upon contemporary Muslim-women and child issues. She has also participated in TV discussions relating to these and other issues.

Course certificate

The course is free to enroll and learn from. But if you want a certificate, you have to register and write the proctored exam conducted by us in person at any of the designated exam centres.
The exam is optional for a fee of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only).
Date and Time of Exams: April 25, 2025 Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm.
Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.
The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published. If there are any changes, it will be mentioned then.
Please check the form for more details on the cities where the exams will be held, the conditions you agree to when you fill the form etc.

CRITERIA TO GET A CERTIFICATE

Average assignment score = 25% of average of best 8 assignments out of the total 12 assignments given in the course.
Exam score = 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100

Final score = Average assignment score + Exam score

Please note that assignments encompass all types (including quizzes, programming tasks, and essay submissions) available in the specific week.

YOU WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A CERTIFICATE ONLY IF AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75. If one of the 2 criteria is not met, you will not get the certificate even if the Final score >= 40/100.

Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of INI and AMU .
Only the e-certificate will be made available. Hard copies will not be dispatched.

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