Individual and Society

Paper Code: 
CENG 101
Credits: 
06
Periods/week: 
06
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

The students will:

CO1.   Evaluate the socio-cultural milieu of the time; the trends and individual style of the representative writers

CO2.   Develop creative expression through a variety of prose and fictional works

CO3.   Comprehend and appreciate nuances of the styles of representative authors in terms of the age / period of the works
CO4. Analyse the fundamentals of fiction, viz. theme, structure, point of view, referential and connotative meaning and language
18.00
Unit I: 

Caste/Class

 

Omprakash Valmiki

Joothan

 

 

Ismat Chughtai

Kallu

Lihaaf

 

18.00
Unit II: 

Gender

 

Rabindranath Tagore

The Exercise Book

 

Jamaica Kincaid

Girl

 

Eunice De Souza

Marriages Are Made

18.00
Unit III: 

Race

 

Wole Soyinka

Telephone Conversation

 

Maya Angelou

 Still I Rise

 

Nadine Gordimer

Jump

 

18.00
Unit IV: 

Violence and War

Bertolt Brecht

General, Your Tank is a Powerful Vehicle

 

Sa’adat Hasan Manto

The Dog of Tetwal

 

Amitav Ghosh

Ghosts of Mrs Gandhi

 

18.00
Unit V: 

Living in a Globalized World

 

Roland Barthes

Toys

 

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Indian Movie, New Jersey

 

Imtiaz Dharker

At the Lahore Karhai

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Agnes, Flavia. Law and Gender Inequality: The Politics of Women’s Rights in India. OUP, 1999.

Barnabas, Sarla. Recent Commonwealth Literature. Prestige Books. 1989.

Chakravarti, Uma. Patriarchy, Stree Publishers, 2006.

De Souza., Eunice. ed. Nine Indian Women Poets: An Anthology, OUP, 2001.

Iyengar, K.R. Srinivasa. Indian Writing in English. Sterling Publishers, 1984.

 

E-Resources including links:

http://cup.columbia.edu/book/joothan/9780231129732

https://unreadpoetssociety.com/2022/10/15/marriages-are-made-poem-by-eunice-de-souza-poem-meaning-summary-and-poem-analysis/

 

Reference Journals:

REKHTA https://www.rekhta.org/authors/ismat-chughtai/articles

SAGE https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0021989404381006?journalCod...

 

Academic Year: 
2023-2024