Based on the film Kahaani (Netflix) and Mary N Wood’s article, (feel free to only focus on the film Kahaani) critically reflect on:
- The ways in which the narrative qualifies as a feminist film as it articulates the rise of new femininity and her complex negotiation with tradition and modernity in contemporary India.
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Based on the film The Namesake (Amazon, iTunes) and Sue Brennan’s article “Time, Space and National Belonging in The Namesake,” critically reflect on:
- The lived reality of South Asian American immigrants along the lines of gender, class, and home.
- Sue Brennan’s claim that “the cinematic adaptation of The Namesake generates a new spatiotemporal state of affairs, one in which the iconography of 9/11 both challenges post-9/11 racial logics and destabilizes the singular, progressive, and institutionalized temporality through which Lahiri writes South Asian American immigrants back into nation.”