Code: 22414:
Paper 207:
Contemporary Literatures in English
Unit 1: Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island (2019)
Characters & Plot Summary
Themes
Research Articles:
- Climate and Culture in Crisis - Gun Island
- Surreal Novel about Climate Change and Migration - Gun Island
- The Era of Environmental Derangement: Witnessing Climate Crisis in Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island
- With ‘Gun Island,’ Amitav Ghosh turns global crises into engaging fiction
- Is Global Warming the 21st Century’s Black Death?
- Climate Change and Refugee Crisis through Myth, Legend, History and the so-called 'irrational'
- From ‘Manasa’ to ‘Madonna’: Reading Religion and Mythology in Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island
The playlist of video recordings of lectures on 'Gun Island'
Unit 2: Julian Barnes’s The Only Story (2018)
'The Only Story' as a Postmodern Novel by Julian Barnes
Crosswords: Symbolic Significance
Postmodern Absurdist Critique of 'The Only Story'
Presentations:
Check your understanding: Online Test
Articles:
Memory Hacking: Remembering, Storytelling, and Unreliable Narrators in Julian Barnes' The Sense of an Ending and The Only Story [Limited access/only for dept students]
The playlist of video recordings of lectures on 'The Only Story
Unit 3: Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (2017)
eText - The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Themes | Video Recording of Themes & Symbols
Thematic Study (Restricted access to Dept students)
Symbols and Motifs (Restricted access to Dept students only)
Check your understanding: Online Test
The Playlist of video recordings of lectures on 'The Ministry of Utmost Happiness'