New Literatures in English

6 B 13 ENG

NEW LITERATURES IN ENGLISH

Objectives :

∙ To provide an exposure to the new literatures produced from countries like India,

           Pakistan, Bangladesh, African nations like Nigeria, Canada, New Zealand, and

∙ To inspire students to study these literatures in a critical and comparative vein with

          those produced from the heartlands of English literatures like America and England.

∙ To provide a general idea of literatures from nations where English reached as the

∙ To introduce students to the ideological concerns shaping such literatures.

∙ To initiate in them an interest for other cultures on different parts of the globe and

           train them to appreciate the differences in culture and identity and the need for

           such differences and variety.

MODULE 1 – INTRODUCTION

1. Interview – SalmanRushdie

2. Interview: AliceMunro

3. Meena Kandasamy’sInterview

4. Interview withMohammed Hanif (Pakistan)

  

MODULE II – POETRY

1. MEENA KANDASAMY: Mulligatawny dreams (India)

2. Margaret Atwood: Habitation (Canada )

3. Kamau Braithwaite: From the Emigrants

 Columbus from his after deck …..as he walked towards our shore. (Barbados – Caribbean)

4. Langston Hughes: Mother to Son (Afro-American)

5. Sydney SiphoSepamla: Tell me the news (South Africa)

6. Sarah Mkhonza: TheSunday Emergency

MODULE III – SHORT FICTION

1. Bessie Head:Heaven is not closed (South Africa) (8 pages)

2. Chinua Achebe: TheSacrificial Egg (Nigeria)

3. Alice Munro: Gravel (Canada 

4. Paul Tan KimLiang: Jasmine’s Father (Singapore)

5. Henry Lawson: TheDrover’s Wife  (Senegal)

MODULE IV – LONG FICTION

1. SEMBENE OUSMANE: Taaw (Senegal )

 (Web Resource: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ousmane_Semb%C3%A8ne)

MODULE - V - DRAMA

Ngugi was Thiongo: I Will Marry When I Want (Kenya)

CORE TEXTS ARE AVAILABLE IN ALMOST ALL BOOKS PRESCRIBED FROM THE INTERNET.