{"id":943,"date":"2022-02-21T00:09:35","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T05:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/?p=943"},"modified":"2022-02-21T00:09:35","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T05:09:35","slug":"week-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/2022\/02\/week-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While reading \u201cHindustan Is a Dream,\u201d the main thing that stood out to me was the use of poems to accommodate the text. The poems, as well as anecdotes and quotes, add to the more objective narrative of the idea of Hindustan and Islamophobia in India with first-hand communication of the effects it had on people. The second poem recited by Haidry sets up a hopeful message of unity with the speaker being from different places. Then the next poem on pages seven to eight uses the \u201cI am,\u201d repetition to show the persecution of Muslims from the narrator&#8217;s perspective. I think the juxtaposition of these two poems is effective in contrasting what could have been with the reality of what it is. For the rest of the interspaced and analyzed poetry, the themes of violence and exclusion are continued, but the \u201cI am a Hindustani Muslim\u201d poem remained in my mind as I kept reading as it is the dream the title of the piece references that have not been achieved but is a dream the text argues is worth continued pursuit as the piece concludes that it is also thought of as a counter to nationalism \u201cformed by relations across difference,\u201d(pg 29). I think this setup was very effective with the poems being a key part of strengthening the argument towards Hindustan over nationalism. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While reading \u201cHindustan Is a Dream,\u201d the main thing that stood out to me was the use of poems to accommodate the text. The poems, as well as anecdotes and quotes, add to the more objective narrative of the idea &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/2022\/02\/week-6\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9403,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9403"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":944,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions\/944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}