Sunday, June 1, 2008

Final Exam Terms

The Final Exam is composed of three sections:

  • Short Answer (50%). Choose 6 of 8.
  • Passage Analysis (25%). Given one passage.
  • Essay (25%). Choose 1 of 2.
Terms/Concepts/Ideas to Review:

Savarkar
Gandhi/counterargument--Indian War of Independence--translation from Marathi--publication details (vs. Hind Swaraj)--swaraj/swardharma--Empire--Muslim/Hindu Unity--Savarkar's shifting position on Hindu Unity--imprisonment--Savarkar's pathos--mutiny vs. rebellion--accidental/temporary causes--real causes--counterpublic--Abhinav Bharat Society (Young India Society)

Ranchod Vira letter
circulation--intellectual labor of peasants--"Government"--Era of Truth--historicist's labor

"Vinyak and Me"
Ganesh--Upenda Parchure--Dr. Parchure--masculinity--wrestling--"Hinduize Politics, Militarize Hinduism--Godse--"Woman's Beauty and Duty"--Hindutva: "Who is a Hindu?"--India Nationalism--naming

Ruth Kluger, Still Alive
Vienna, Austria--Anschluss--autobiography--child's view (secret of death/sex)--"without pathos"--Nuremberg Laws--Snow White analogy--Nazi propaganda--Adorno: "To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric"--role of mother--memory--schorschi and transport--father--monuments/museum culture--Therisienstadt--Auschwitz--Good Deed--redemption--double world--moral predicament (ambivalence)--art/catharsis/sublimation--resistance--liberation, problems with--truth--uprootedness/refugees/DPs--humanity/crimes against humanity--sentimentality--masculinity/gender--Holocaust "named"--courage/cowardice--humor

Simpson, "Retro-Nationalism"
compliance/defiance--Stasi--GDR--IM--FDJ--retro-nationalsim--Ostalgie--Amiga--Pankow--Feeling B--Die Skeptiker--taboo--the wall--problem of expression: why would it be worth it to forego personal expression?

Housee & Dar, "Re-Mixing Identities"; Rockwell, "The Asian Roots of Asian Massive"; Brady, "Quick Guide to Asian Fusion"
remixing--Radical Sista (Ranjit)--Bally Sagoo--traditional film music--Bhangra--"westernize"--Karsh Kale (Asian Massive)--Asian Underground--ADF education--Free Satpal Ram--racism--fascism--Asian/Black community--Hip Hop

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