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Literature and the World: “Dil ki Duniya”
Often defined as the totality of all things in existence, the “world” as a category and as a concept is unique within histories of human thought. For example, in contexts such as “World Affairs,” “World Commerce,” or “World Literature,” we encounter the “world” almost as an adjective that points to a sense of vastness or universality. This sense of immensity is also conveyed in expressions like such and such or so and so, “means the world to me.” Such a usage relates to yet another sense in which one may understand the “world,” and that is as a horizon or locus of one’s individual and shared perceptions and experiences. Extending from such a personal sense of the word and contrary to universality or immensity, an expression like, “You and I come from very different worlds,” expresses a seeming incommensurability across individual and subjective experiences.
In this course we will be working towards understanding this unique and exceptional elasticity of the “world” as an idea or a concept, and as a lived reality through its representations in literature. We will be reading a wide sampling of texts such as Banarasidas’ Ardhakathanak, Albert Camus’ The Outsider, Alice Walker's The Color Purple and Vaikom Muhammad Basheer’s Me Grandad 'ad an Elephant. As we encounter and navigate these fictive and literary worlds, we will also be reflecting on ways in which we understand our place and the place of others in the world(s) that we live in.
