South Asian Writing in English - AHE3223

Assessment 1: Other

List of provisional sources to be included in S1 dossier. 

Provisional list of sources for dossier in Summative 1

Assessment 2: Written plan

Symposium paper plan

Assessment 1: Portfolio

Collated primary and secondary sources, with references. Equivalent to 1500 words.  

Curated thematic source dossier 

Assessment 2: Presentation

Twenty-minute paper and visual aid, contribution to symposium discussion (equivalent to 4500 words) 

Symposium paper 

This module takes us on a journey with South Asian writers, looking at texts from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first, set in India, Pakistan, and sites of diaspora including Britain and North America. Our individual approaches to the set texts will differ depending on our family histories, faith, gender, and other factors. Student voices are particularly important to seminar discussions here. We&#39;ll be considering the relationships between history, politics, literature, and identity. Topics include Empire, Independence, Partition, and Migration.

School of Arts and Humanities

This list is indicative only and will be updated to reflect latest scholarship and staff expertise. 
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<li>Sake Dean Mahomed, The Travels of Dean Mahomed (1793). Ebook. <a href="https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft4h4nb20n;brand=eschol">https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft4h4nb20n;brand=eschol</a></li>
<li>Priyamvada Gopal, The Indian English Novel: Nation, History, and Narration (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).</li>
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Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Rajmohan’s Wife (1864). Ebook. https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.20716/page/n5
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<li>
Raja Rao, Kanthapura (1938)
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<li>
Kamal Markandaya, Nectar in a Sieve (1954)
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Bapsi Sidhwa, Cracking India (1991; published as Ice-Candy Man 1988)
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<li>Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007)</li>
<li>Kamila Shamsie, Home Fire (2018)</li>
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English Literature

AHE3223 - South Asian Writing in English

South Asian Writing in English

Be able to engage with questions and suggestions from staff and peers.   

Be able to deploy visual and other forms in support of literary analysis.

Demonstrate alertness to the social, historical and cultural contexts of the processes of composition and production of texts.

Be able to structure coherent and rigorous arguments using persuasive, effective expression, incorporating the arguments of others. 

Identify, gather, synthesise, organise, and deploy evidence in the support of thematic analysis.

Demonstrate knowledge of the global diversity of literatures in English.   