Topic for 4th semester
LITERARY UNI ● Decolonising the Mind (HW)
THEORY II T 01 ○ What was the colonial imposition of foreign
language doing to the children of Africa?
○ How does language serve the dual character of
communication as well as the embodiment of a
culture?
UNI ● Postmodern Condition (SA)
T 02 ○ Contribution of Kant in developing Postmodern
theory
○ Lyotard's view on the postmodern condition of
knowledge (summary or analysis of the
Postmodern condition)
○ "I think therefore I am". How does Kant reach
this conclusion? (Short)
○ What are the major premises of Enlightenment
philosophy that are attacked by Hume? (Short)
● Simulacra and Simulation (RH)
○ Contribution of Baudrillard in postmodernism
UNI ● The Circulation of Social Energy (SI)
T 03
● The Value of Narrativity in the Representation of Reality
(OR)
○ What are the non-narrative forms of history?
Briefly explain each form.
○ How does White use ‘annals’ as a case-study for
anti-narrative form of history? Why, according to
White, does the modern reader find this form of
history inadequate?
○ What are the narrative forms of history? Briefly
explain
UNI ● Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology (SA)
T 04 ○ How does Cheryll Glotfelty codify and
systematize the theory of Ecocriticism following
Elaine Showalter's model?
○ How does Glotfelty define Ecocriticism? Discuss
the premises of Ecocriticism and the debate
surrounding the taxonomy of the term.
○ Role of Humanities in addressing the
Environmental Crisis (Short)
○ Future of Ecocriticism (Short)
● Geocritical Exploration (SC)
LITERATURE UNI ● The Scar (NT)
FROM THE T 01 ○ Slap incident
MARGINS ○ Caste difference in village through various
anecdotes
○ As a Dalit autobiography
○ Significance of title
○ Important incident (short)
UNI ● Nervous Condition (HW)
T 02 ○ Patriarchy
○ Language and power
○ Bildungsroman
○ Marginality and Englishness
○ Tambudzai's character
○ Nyasha's character
● Stolen (SA)
○ Problematic Concept of Home
○ Violation of Human Rights of the Aborigines
○ Aborigines view about Nature and Land (Short)
○ Role of Shirley (Short)
UNI ● One Little Finger (OR)
T 03 ○ Social stigma
○ Resilience
○ Social activism
○ Narrative ambiguity
○ Role of medicine
○ Caregiving
○ Role of technology
● Naseema: The Incredible Story (OR)
○ Social stigma
○ Resilience
○ Social activism
○ Narrative ambiguity
○ Role of medicine
○ Caregiving
○ Role of technology
UNI ● Cloud Nine (SA)
T 04 ○ Restructuring of Family
○ Title
○ Theme of Sexual Liberty and Identity
○ Role of Joshua (Short)
○ Role of Betty (Short)
LITERATURE UNI ● Gazal, Learning Urdu, Tonight, Even the Rain, The
OF THE INDIAN T 01 Wolf’s Postcript to ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ (NT)
DIASPORA ○ Diasporic identity in the poems of Agha Shahid
Ali
○ Tonight - as a Gazal
○ Intertextual elements in Tonight (short)
○ Assess Agha Shahid Ali's contribution in
reshaping English Ghazal through his poems. (
With examples from the two ghazals taught)
● Death of a Young Dalit, Aftermath, Kabir Sings in a City
of Burning Towers, Bengali Market (NT)
○ How the poet addressed the contemporary issues
○ Critical Appreciation of the poem Death of a
Young Dalit
○ Her poetry as global poetry/ Meena Alexander as
World poet
○ Concept of violence in Raw Silk
UNI ● The Namesake (OR)
T 02 ○ Characterization
○ Bildungsroman
○ Nostalgia
○ Cultural hybridism
UNI ● Rootless but Green are the Boulevard (SA)
T 03 ○ How does the play bring Uma Parameswaran's
view about the confluence of Ganga and
Assiniboine rivers?
○ Generation gap and conflict among the diasporas
○ Significance of the title
○ Symbol of trees in the title of the play (Short)
○ Role of The kids in the play (Short)
UNI ● At the Auction of the Ruby Slippers (RH)
T 04 ○ Idea of home
○ Critique of consumer culture and fertilization
○ Title
● Clothes (NT)
○ How marriage is parallel to diasporic experience
○ Symbolism
- Ruksana Parvin
