Individual and Society

Paper Code: 
25CENG101
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.

 

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 / 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.

18.00
Unit I: 

Omprakash Valmiki

Joothan

 

Ismat Chughtai

Kallu Lihaaf

18.00
Unit II: 

Rabindranath Tagore

Gitanjali (Songs 1-3, 8-10)

 

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

Toba Tek Singh

 

G. Kalyan Rao

 Untouchable Spring

18.00
Unit V: 

Roland Barthes

Toys

 

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Indian Movie, New Jersey

 

Imtiaz Dharker

  At the Lahore Karhai

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Suggested Reference 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.

 

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: 
2025-2026