| Course Title: Revolution and Postcolonialism |
| Start Date: 01/27/2026 End Date: 05/12/2026 |
| Term: Spring Semester 2026 |
| Description: Revolution-as foundational event, symbolic aspiration, or failed aftermath-has been central to postcolonial thinking. In this seminar, we will consider contested ideas on revolution and its multiple dimensions across an archive of literary, visual, and theoretical sources. While our focus will be on the twentieth century, we will think broadly about how echoes of revolutionary pasts inform postcolonial understandings of the present, including practices of independence, solidarity, globalization, nonviolence, the strike, etc. Readings may include works by Fanon, Gandhi, Ambedkar, Luxemburg, Ngugi, Gordimer, amongst others, with possible films by Pontecorvo, Pathwardhan, Eisenstein. |
| Distribution(s): I - Humanities , MP - Multicultural Perspectives , SI - Speaking-Intensive , WI - Writing-Intensive |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Arnav Adhikari | arnavadhikari@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 01/27/2026 - 05/12/2026 | Seminar | Thursday | 01:30PM - 04:20PM | REES - Reese | 324 | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| None |
| Comments |
| Additional Comments |
| Course Tags | ||
| CRPE0001 | CRPE-1: CRPE - Major Pathway/Minor | This course has been approved to count towards the CRPE major pathway and the CRPE minor. |
| CRPE0003 | CRPE-3: Critical Social Thought - Major Pathway | This course has been approved to count towards the CRPE Critical Social Thought major pathway. |
| Cross-listed Sections |
| None |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Closed | Capacity: 18 | Enrollment: 18 | Available: 0 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| To be determined. |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is NOT the complete book list for this class. |