Memory in South Asian Literature HSS-4201 PDF 2024-25

The LNMIIT, Jaipur Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Subject Course Title: Memory in Total Contact Hours: Code: L: 3 T: 0 P: 0 C: 3 Sout...

The LNMIIT, Jaipur Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Subject Course Title: Memory in Total Contact Hours: Code: L: 3 T: 0 P: 0 C: 3 South Asian Literature 40 HSS-4201 Pre-requisite: None Year: 1 Semester: Odd Type of Course: Open Elective (OE) ** L 🡪 Lectures, T 🡪 Tutorials, P 🡪 Practical C 🡪 Credit Learning Objective: This course aims to focus on the need to study ‘memory’ in the South Asian context from historical, political as well as technological standpoints. There are major events in the political histories of India and South Asia of the twentieth century that are being mediated through theoretical, textual, and empirical frames. The course seeks to study the existing and ongoing narrative interventions in a comprehensive manner so that re-examinations and possibilities can be explored for the preservation and reconstruction of events in memory and national history. For this, the course attempts to have a nuanced discussion on the literary and non-literary practices, methods, and digital tools used to narrate and archive the significant crucial events in the Indian and South Asian historiography of the twentieth century. Course outcomes (COs): On completion of this course, the students will have the ability to: Bloom’s Level CO-1 Recognize the embedded and extended models of memory at cultural 1 levels CO-2 Understand affective and immersive experiential quality of memory 2 CO-3 Analyze the political implications of remembrances and forgetting of 3 national events CO-4 Analyze the political and cultural trajectories that inform the 4 mediation/textualization of memories CO-5 Correlate how technology and digitalization can be utilized effectively 4 in the preservation of cultural memories Lecture Hours Course Topics and COs UNIT – I (Memory and its studies) 6 HSS Department, The LNMIIT Jaipur Page | 1-3  The LNMIIT, Jaipur Department of Humanities and Social Sciences 2 1.1.Memory: Personal, Collective, and Cultural CO1 2 1.2. Trauma and Affect Theories: Processes, Selections, and Retentions 1.3. Representations of Memories: Stories, narratives, and media 2 UNIT – II (1947 Partition and Cultural Memory) 10 2.1 1947 Partition: Textual, Media, and Material Representations 3 2.2. Excerpts from Urvashi Butalia’s The Other Side of Silence 2 CO2 2.3. Mallika Ahluwalia’s Divided by Partition, United by Resilience: 21 Inspirational Stories from Indian Partition 2 2.4. Excerpts from Aanchal Malhotra’s Remnants of a Separation: A History of Partition through Material Memory (2018) 3 UNIT – III (Historical Events of South Asia and Remembrances) 10 4.1. Protracted war of Sri Lanka: Readings from Samanth Subhramanium’s This Divided Island 3 CO3 4.2. Creation of Bangladesh: Excerpts from Anam Zakaria’s 1971: A People’s History from Bangladesh, Pakistan, and India 3 4.3. Kashmir and tragic tales: Excerpts from Freny Manecksha’s Behold I Shine: Narratives of Kashmir’s Women and Children 4 UNIT-IV (Images and Cinematic Memorialization) 8 3.1. Sardar Udham- Remembering the violence and trauma of the Jallianwala CO4 Bagh Massacre; Bengal Shadows- Buried stories of the 1943 Famine 3 HSS Department, The LNMIIT Jaipur Page | 2-3  The LNMIIT, Jaipur Department of Humanities and Social Sciences 3.2. Bhag Milkha Bhag- Memories and displacement of Partition; Manto- Trauma, memory, and fragmentation of Identities 3 3.3. Haider-Memorialization of Conflict Zones UNIT – V: (Archives, Memory Projects, and Technological Tools) 8 5.1. Indian Memory Projects; 1947 Partition Archive; Archival Material: Partition Museum; and National Archives on Partition 2 CO5 5.2. Cookbooks of South Asia; Indian Community Cookbook; and SEA Digital Archive; Visuals on Memory and Migration 2 5.3. Seminar Presentations 4 Reference books: 1. Astrid Erll and Ansgar Nünning. Cultural Memory Studies: An International and Interdisciplinary Handbook. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co, 2018 2. Cathy Caruth. Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History. Baltimore: John Hopkins Press, 1996 3. Peter A. Levine. Trauma and Memory: Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past: A Practical Guide for Understanding and Working with Traumatic Memory. Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 2015 4. J Edward Mallot. Memory, Nationalism, and Narrative in Contemporary South Asia. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 Additional Resources: Select NPTEL lectures, Web Sources on Indian and South Asian Histories Evaluation Model Component Weightage CO 1 Quiz 10 1 2 Quiz 10 2,3 Seminar Presentation 15 4,5 HSS Department, The LNMIIT Jaipur Page | 3-3  The LNMIIT, Jaipur Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Mid Term 25 1,2,3 End Term 40 1,2,3, 4,5 CO and PO Correlation Matrix for B.Tech. for all CO PO PO PO PO PO PO PO PO PO PO1 PO1 PO1 PSO PSO2 PSO3 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 1 CO 2 1 CO 2 2 CO 3 3 CO 2 4 CO 2 5 Last Updated On: 3 Aug 2023 Updated By: Dr. Payel Pal HSS Department, The LNMIIT Jaipur Page | 4-3