Rhetoric in South Asia

Seminar on the rhetorical production of “South Asia” in contemporary U. S. media cycles, drawing attention to contemporary issues of public attention in and about South Asia. Using the critical and creative work of such writers as Gayatri Spivak, Arundhati Roy, Edward Said, Homi Bhabha, Amartya Sen and Martin Bernal, the course equips students with classical, comparative, and critical cultural tools from rhetorical theory, and with a transnational and intersectional feminist focus, the course excavates discourses of cultural problems and innovates rhetorical means of their elimination. Student work is collaborative, collective, critical, and creative, oriented towards digital/media production for public audiences.