Individual and Society

Paper Code: 
24CENG101
Credits: 
06
Periods/week: 
06
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

 

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.

 

18.00
Unit I: 

Omprakash Valmiki

Joothan

 

Ismat Chughtai

   Kallu Lihaaf

18.00
Unit II: 

Rabindranath Tagore

The Exercise Book

 

Jamaica Kincaid

Girl

 

Eunice De Souza

  Marriages Are Made

18.00
Unit III: 

Wole Soyinka

Telephone Conversation

 

Maya Angelou

Still I Rise

 

Nadine Gordimer

  Jump

18.00
Unit IV: 

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: 

Roland Barthes

Toys

 

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Indian Movie, New Jersey

 

Imtiaz Dharker

  At the Lahore Karhai

Source Books: 

 

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.

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

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...

 

Academic Year: 
2024-2025
Course Outcomes: 

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.