दी साहि配य: एक परिचयﴂPanorama of - हि

HIN 330/384 Prof. Dalpat Rajpurohit The University of Texas at Austin Department of Asian Studies Fall 2018 WCH 4.104B TTH 12:30 to 2:00 512-471-1219 Office hours: T 2:30 to 3:30 or by appt. [email protected] Th 11:00 to 12:00 or by appt.

Course description: This course offers an introduction to six prominent themes in Hindi literature. It investigates topics like realism, forgetting and remembering the partition of India, life in the urban middle class and changes in family values, as well as literary voice in the community that is traditionally known as ‘untouchables.’ It will also explore some of popular poetry of Kabir and Rahim near the end of the semester. In each class we will focus on a text or film in the original Hindi. Students will prepare in advance the assigned readings with a supplied glossary. For each theme, there will be an interactive class discussion in Hindi. Students will be expected to write responses on the theme covered and build up their advanced level vocabulary and grammar. At the end of each week a class email will explain everything that the students need to prepare for the following week, including readings and the format of the upcoming quiz. Students with two years of Hindi, or equivalent knowledge, are eligible to take this course.

Goals:  Get acquainted with expressing forms of Hindi through literature and build up your literary and language skills  Read a variety of Hindi short stories on important societal aspects of North India  Discuss in Hindi the main themes covered in literature and cinema

Topics and texts: (Available as PDFs on Canvas) 1. Realism in Hindi and : ठाकु र का कु आ,ँ सवा सेर गहे ँ

2.Remembering and forgetting the partition: मलबे का माललक () खोल दो (Manto)

 Filming the partition: Garm Hava and Pinjar

3. Life in the urban middle class: लद쥍ली मᴂ एक मौत (); तनाव (Rajendra Yadav) 4. Changes in values and urban family life: चीफ़ की दावत (Bhishm Sahani);

वापसी (Usha Priyamvada)

5. Hindi Literature on the margins - writings: लि쥍ल ू का पोता (Surajpal Chauhan)

प楍चीस चौका डेढ़ सौ (Omprakash Valmiki)

6. Poetry of Devotion and Morality: कबीर, रहीम

Assessment: Biweekly quiz: 25% Weekly vocabulary quiz: 10% Attendance and class participation: 20% Reading homework: 20% Take home Final: 25% for undergraduates only (HIN 330) Final paper 25% for graduates only (HIN 385)

Attendance and class participation: Full attendance is required. Absences will negatively impact your grade for attendance and class participation. Grades: Quiz grades will be written on the hard copies of the quiz. Overall grades can be tracked on canvas or by discussing with your professor. Biweekly quiz: These quizzes will give students a prompt in Hindi about a text or film covered. Students will prepare the written portion of the quiz at home in Hindi, followed by an in-class discussion on the same question. The written and spoken components will factor towards each biweekly quiz grade. Weekly vocabulary quiz: Students will prepare from a list of twenty of the most frequent or relevant words taken from the text covered in the given week. This list will be posted on canvas a week in advance. Take-home Final (for undergraduates only): Analytical questions in Hindi about the text we have read and translation questions. Final paper (for graduates only): a 2000 to 2500-word paper in Hindi on one of the themes of the course by reading an additional primary text in Hindi and secondary sources in Hindi, and/or in English. Students are required to bring their ideas to office hours at least three weeks before the final paper submission date. Grading Scale: A 92-100, A- 89-91 B+ 86-88, B 82-85, B- 79-81 C+ 76-78, C 72-75, C- 69-71 D+ 66-68, D 62-65, D- 59-61 F 0-58

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