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Autobiography (Theory)
The Course will enable the students to examine life narratives and autobiography as a genre and explore the cultural, social, historical, and political nuances in the selected texts, addressing issues of identity, objectivity, truth, and subjectivity.
The students will:
CO114. Explore life narratives and autobiography as a genre
C0115. Assess the relationship between self and society and other cultural, social, historical and political nuances in autobiography
C0116. Critique to read the role of memory and voices of resistance in autobiography
C0117. Construct enhanced
understanding towards autobiography as a form of rewriting history
CO118. Estimate the author’s personal ideology in shaping the text and raising issues of identity, objectivity, truth and subjectivity
CO119. Contribute effectively in course-specific interaction.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Confessions (Part One Book One, pp. 5-43)
M. K. Gandhi
Autobiography or the Story of My Experiments with Truth
(Part I Chapters II to IX, pp. 5-26 )
Annie Besant
Autobiography (Chapter VII, Atheism As I Knew and Taught It, pp. 141- 175)
Binodini Dasi
My Story and Life as an Actress (pp. 61-83)
A. Revathi
Truth About Me: A Hijra Life Story (Chapters 1-4)
Richard Wright
Black Boy
Sharankumar Limbale
The Outcaste
Suggested Reference Books:
Anderson, Linda. “Introduction”. Autobiography. Routledge, 2001.
Marcus, Laura. “The Law of Genre”. Auto/biographical Discourses. Manchester University Press, 1994.
Mason, Mary G. “The Other Voice: Autobiographies of Women Writers”. Life/Lines: Theorizing Women’s Autobiography, Eds. Bella Brodzki and Celeste Schenck. Cornell University Press, 1988.
Olney, James. “A Theory of Autobiography”. Metaphors of Self: The Meaning of Autobiography. Princeton University Press, 1972.
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Reference Journal:
JSTOR