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In this seminar we will read and analyse a broad selection of travelogues in which writers from the 19th to the 21st centuries describe their impressions of the Indian subcontinent. Our critical analysis of these Orientalist texts will focus primarily on issues of gender, race, class and imperialism. Texts under discussion will range from Fanny Parks's Wanderings of a Pilgrim (1850), Emily Eden's Letters Written to Her Sister from the Upper Provinces of India (1866) and Winston Churchill's The Story of the Malakand Field Force (1897) to Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat Pray Love (2006). Sound knowledge of texts (Gilbert, Churchill and excerpts, as indicated in the course reader) is compulsory and will be tested within the first weeks of the semester.
Texts:
- Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat Pray Love (2007 Bloomsbury paperback edition)
- Winston Churchill, The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War (1897) is available as a free download @ Project Gutenberg
- a course reader containing a selection of further texts, primary as well as secondary, will be available at Kopiersysteme Priebe, Segerothstr. 81 from April 13th, 2011.
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