This Course will enable the students to analyze literary texts and develop an appreciation for the thematic, structural, and stylistic elements of fiction, from the standpoint of caste, class, race and gender, in a globalized world.
Omprakash Valmiki
Joothan
Ismat Chughtai
Kallu Lihaaf
Rabindranath Tagore
The Exercise Book
Jamaica Kincaid
Girl
Eunice De Souza
Marriages Are Made
Wole Soyinka
Telephone Conversation
Maya Angelou
Still I Rise
Nadine Gordimer
Jump
Bertolt Brecht
General, Your Tank is a Powerful Vehicle
Sa’adat Hasan Manto
The Dog of Tetwal
Amitav Ghosh
Ghosts of Mrs Gandhi
Roland Barthes
Toys
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Indian Movie, New Jersey
Imtiaz Dharker
At the Lahore Karhai
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-eun... 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...
The students will:
CO1. Evaluate the socio-cultural milieu of the time; the trends and individual style of the representative writers
CO2. Develop the ability to creatively attempt a critical analysis of the given literary texts.
CO3. Comprehend and appreciate nuances of the style of the representative authors of the age 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
CO5. Examine the concepts of self and society within the framework of caste, class, race, gender, violence and war.
CO6.Contribute effectively to course-specific interaction.