HACU 234

HACU 234
Traveling Identities: Immigrants, Exiles and Sojourners
in Film, Literature and Culture
Spring 2001

Eva Rueschmann
Asst. Professor of
Cultural Studies
Phone: 559-5429
erHA@hampshire.edu
Office hours: ASH 107,
M 1-2:20, Th 1-3

Mon screenings at 2:30 in ASH Auditorium
Wed seminars 2:30-5:20 in FPH 107


	Online Resources

	Check out the syllabus, including details of assignments and required texts. Communicate with other students in the class using these e-mail addresses. If you would like to set up an online discussion, please contact me. Use the research center. Ask a librarian, browse background reading. Get general advice on Division I exams. Browse links to related topics. ARCHIVE OF PREVIOUS WEEKS Week One Week Two Week Three Week Four Week Five Week Six Week Seven Week Eight Week Nine Week Ten Week Eleven Week Twelve

Screenings/Announcements

Week Eight: April 2

Screening of Gurinder Chadha's
BHAJI ON THE BEACH
(U.K. 1993, 100 min.)
today at 2:30 in Ash Auditorium.

Check out the Film Notes and Study Questions for further information on the director and film, and additional websites. Discussion questions may serve as starting points for your journal entries.

Remember to think of a film that you would like to discuss during the last week of the semester. I will be collecting suggestions over the next couple of weeks.

Readings/Assignments

April 4

This week we will discuss Gurinder Chadha's Bhaji on the Beach which presents a female and feminist perspective of the South Asian immigrant experience in Great Britain.

Please complete the following supplemental readings:

Avtar Brah, "Gendered Spaces: Women of South Asian Descent in 1980s Britain" (in Cartographies of Diaspora)
Andrea Stuart, "Blackpool Illuminations"
Bharati Mukherjee, "The Tenant" (short story) and
"A Four-Hundred-Year-Old Woman" (essay)

In-class screening of Gurinder Chadha's I'M BRITISH BUT...

This week we will do small group discussions that will be centered around your own questions and comments on the film and readings.

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