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SEASIA 277 Modern Classics of Southeast Asian Literature and Film (5) A&H
Addresses the question: What is modernity? Investigates aspects of alternative modernity or alternatives to modernity expressed through a careful selection of literature and film from Southeast Asia and its diasporas. Analyzes how Southeast Asian cultures use motifs drawn from the supernatural, religion, nature, and history to pursue intellectual and socio-cultural progress between the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
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SEASIA 377 Science and Speculative Fiction of Southeast Asia (5) A&H, DIV
Introduces works of science and speculative fiction from Southeast Asia. Explores how these two fantastical genres (too oftentimes linked to Euro-American cultures) act as thought experiments for Southeast Asians to deal with real world issues of climate change, racial supremacy, and technological utopianism, symptoms of the darker side of modernity.
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SEASIA 477 Decolonizing Authenticity in Southeast Asian Translation (5) A&H, DIV
Unpacks the multifarious meanings of authenticity through translation theories and practices in Southeast Asia in relation to coloniality, including an introduction to translation theory and traditions. Toggles between cultural studies, philosophy, and area studies. Includes intersections between translation, multiculturalism, and power relations.
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SEASIA 577 Cultures of Global Asias (5)
Focuses attention on the place of Southeast Asia. Includes three components: cultural cosmopolises (the Sinophone and the Sanskrit cosmopolis, for instance), decoloniality (Southeast Asian vernacular thought) as well as art and aesthetics (such as the Korean Hallyu). JSIS A 506.
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