Instr: Kumkum Sangari
Office: CRT 396; 229-2420
e-mail: ksangari@uwm.edu
Office hours: TBA
Course Information: W 1:00pm - 3:40pm; CRT 284
This course will explore `modernity' as an ensemble of expectations, desires, class and colonial impositions, alternative visions or critiques, and material transformations through the emergence of gendered public spheres in the late 19th and early 20th century. The sites of `becoming modern' include literacy, reading and writing; new women; colonial exhibitionary complexes and civilizing missions; the city and visuality alongside the gendering of urban labour and consumption; and early cinema as a tutelary and fantasmatic public sphere. The texts to be studied, both formally and historically, are drawn from several countries (England, Egypt, Ghana, South Africa, the Caribbean, India, north America), and include short stories, dreams, autobiographies, personal narratives, lectures, polemical essays, posters, sketches, films and critical theory. They lead, potentially, into a theorization of the 'global modern.'
