Description
PEARSON INDIA Individual And Society 1St Edition 2005 by DEPT OF DELHI UNIVERSITY
This is a prescribed textbook in Delhi University for the BA English (Discipline) course 'The Individual and Society', the concurrent inter-disciplinary course of the BA Honours Programme, and most likely for the B.Com Honours Programme. The anthology consists of essays, short stories and poems around the themes of caste, class, gender, race and war and globalization, and how these affect the individual. The ions are relevant, up-to-date for first year students in English as well as in other social sciences and humanities.
Table of Content
General introduction
Selections: with headnotes, annotations and questions
Phule—Caste Laws
Omprakash Valmiki—Excerpt from Joothan : A Dalit’s Life
Premchand: Deliverance
Ismat Chughtai: Kallu
Hira Bansode: Bosom Friend
B.R. Ambedkar: Excerpt from Who Were the Shudras
Virgina Woolf: Shakespeare’s Sister
Tagore: The Exercise Book
Jamaica Kincaid: Girl
Marge Piercy: Breaking Out
W.B. Yeats: A Prayer for My Daughter
Eunice de Souza: Marriages Are Made
Ambai: Yellow Fish
Margaret Atwood: The Reincarnation of Captain Cook
A.K. Ramanujan: Highway Stripper
Roger Mais: Blackout
Wole Soyinka: Telephone Conversation
Maya Angelou: Still I Rise
Nadine Gordimer: Jump
Langston Hughes: Harlem
Siegfried Sassoon: Return from the Somme
Wilfred Owen: Dulce ed Decorum Est
Edna St Vincent Millay: Conscientious Objector
Henry Reed: Naming of Parts
Bertolt Brecht: General, Your Tank is a Powerful Vehicle
Initizar Husain: A Chronicle of the Peacocks
Sadaat Hasan Manto: The Dog of Tetwal
Amita Ghosh: Excerpt from the Ghosts of Mrs Gandhi
Roland Barthes: Toys from Mythologies
Bibhas Sen: Zero-Sum-Game
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: Indian Movie, New Jersey
Imtiaz Dharker: At the Lahore Karhai
Edward Brathwaite: Colombe
Naomi Klein: The Brand Expands
Salient Features:
Relevant, up-to-date selections of interest to today’s students, living in a globalised world.
Practically all the authors are from 20th century; half from the Indian subcontinent.
Student-friendly selections: drawn from widely different background enabling students to compare their experience with that of people elsewhere.
Texts chosen for readability and subject, impact and interest, which allow them to speak for themselves.
• Intended to encourage students to develop their own insights and interpretations.
Editorial material, headnotes, annotations and questions, to help situate the texts and serve as pointers for further study.