HIST-340 Topic: The Archive and Historians
This course examines how histories of borderlands and margins, emanating from empires and nationstates, turn them into simultaneous objects of desire and control. Through the example of Kashmir — long conceptualized as a famed paradisiacal land, which in the postcolonial era turned into a politically disputed and a heavily militarized zone — we will critically parse orientalist, nationalist, academic, and popular histories about such regions in South Asia and beyond. Building upon comparisons with similarly contested sites such as Palestine, the course will center a people’s understanding of history through counter historical narratives, literary works, protest music, and poetry.
Writing-Intensive (18)
Credits
1
Notes
Students in this course can opt-in for co-requisite archival research for an extra 0.5 course credit (HIST-183 History Workshop: Archival Practice and Theory).