Major · English · Semester 6 · TY BA · 2 credits · 50 marks · 30 hours
Module 1: Background
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Globalization, Migration, and Diaspora
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Gorkhaland Movement and Political Insurgency
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3
Class Divide and Social Inequality
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4
Identity, Hybridity, and Cultural Conflict
Module 2: Novel
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Kiran Desai – The Inheritance of Loss
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A Note on the Pedagogical Approach: The novel should be taught by focusing on migration, identity, globalization, and postcolonial disillusionment. Postcolonial and diaspora perspectives will guide students in understanding narrative structure, symbolism, and cultural conflict.
Text Book
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Desai, Kiran. The Inheritance of Loss. Penguin Books India, 2006.
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Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna (Ed.). A History of Indian Literature in English. Permanent Black, 2003.
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Mukherjee, Meenakshi. The Twice Born Fiction: Themes and Techniques of the Indian Novel in English. Heinemann, 2002.
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3
King, Bruce. Modern Indian Fiction. Oxford University Press, 2001.
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4
Nayar, Pramod K. Postcolonial Literature: An Introduction. Pearson Longman, 2008.
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Tharu, Susie, and K. Lalita (Eds.). Women Writing in India: 600 B.C. to the Present (Vol. II). Oxford University Press, 1991.
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Eagleton, Mary (Ed.). Feminist Literary Theory: A Reader. Blackwell Publishing, 2011
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Loomba, Ania. Colonialism/Postcolonialism. Routledge, 2015.
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Abrams, M. H., and Geoffrey Galt Harpham. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Cengage Learning, 2015.
