Part A: Literatures of the Indian Diaspora
This module will also expect students to engage with the literary and poetic works of the two major types of
Diaspora – The NRI Diaspora of the Twentieth Century and the Indentured Diaspora of the Nineteenth
Century and the literature which has emerged from that migration. Selected texts from a range of
geographical areas will be studied in their socio-political contexts and within a comparative perspective.
Part B: Bollywood in the Diaspora
This part of the module seeks to explore the relationship between Bollywood film and Mauritian popular
culture. Bollywood as a phenomenon will be studied in all its global diversity but Mauritius will constitute a
major focus. Film will thus often be read in the context of constructions of identity in Mauritius, with
possible comparisons with the reception of other types of visual texts as Hollywood, Indian Art Film, Latin
American and Indian serials, advertisement, shows. Learners are expected to have attained or to acquire
familiarity with theories such as Semantics, Psychoanalysis, Feminism, Queer Theory, Marxism.
Postmodernism, and Postcolonialism, and to know how to apply them to texts and contexts. In addition to
popular culture theorists like Stuart Hall, Michel Foucault and Jean Baudrillard, learners will be expected to
acquaint themselves with film theorists like André Bazin, Mary Ann Doane, Philip Rosen and Laura Mulvey,
and most particularly Bollywood film theorists such as Madhava Prasad, Y.A. Fazalbhoy, Vijay Mishra. |
Administrative assistant: DILMAHOMED BOCUS Bibi Swaleha
Telephone: 4037400
Email: s.dilmahomed@uom.ac.mu |