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Marginal Literature

The document outlines a course on marginal literature with the objectives of highlighting writing from socially marginalized groups and fostering social awareness. It includes 6 units covering poetry, prose, fiction, drama, and autobiography from various marginalized communities around the world such as indigenous, LGBTQ+, disabled, and caste-oppressed authors. Students will be continuously assessed on tests, seminars, and assignments. The end semester exam will contain objective questions, short notes, and essays to evaluate students' understanding of the prescribed texts.

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Marginal Literature

The document outlines a course on marginal literature with the objectives of highlighting writing from socially marginalized groups and fostering social awareness. It includes 6 units covering poetry, prose, fiction, drama, and autobiography from various marginalized communities around the world such as indigenous, LGBTQ+, disabled, and caste-oppressed authors. Students will be continuously assessed on tests, seminars, and assignments. The end semester exam will contain objective questions, short notes, and essays to evaluate students' understanding of the prescribed texts.

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Marginal Literature

Objectives
 To highlight the significance of writing from the socially marginalized sections.
 To create an awareness about marginality and to inculcate a social consciousness of literary
activism

Unit 1: Background Study

Unit 2- Poetry

1. Anonymous – Christmas at Keelvenmani (Indian)


2. L.S. Rockeday – To Be or Not to Be Born (Indian)
3. Marilyn Dumont – A Letter to Sir A. John Macdonald (Canadian)
4. Rita Joe - I Lost My Talk (Canadian)
5. Paula Gunn Allen – Taking a Visitor to See the Ruins (Native American)
6. Michael Keltner – Savage Man (Native American)
7. Greta Hogan - The Indian Problem (Native American)
8. Oodgeroo Noonuccal - Colour Bar (Australian)
9. Richard G Kennedy - Who are We? (Australian)
10. Lee Mocobe – A Powerful Poem About What It Means To Be A
Transgender(Transgender)

Unit 3: Prose:

1. B.R. Ambedkar - Annihilation of Caste: An Undelivered Speech


(Extracts- 4, 5 and 6)
2. Mark Thompson - Gay Spirit: Myth and Meaning (LGBT)
3. Aniket Jaaware - The Silence of the Subaltern Student*

Unit 4- Fiction

1. Ved Mehta - The Stolen Light (Visually Challenged)


2. Baby Kamble - The Prisons We Broke (Indian)
3. Narayan - Kocharethi: The Araya Woman (Indian)
4. Jeanette Winterson - Oranges are not the Only Fruit ( Lesbian)
5. Imayam Annamalai - Pethavan ( The Begetter)

Unit 5- Drama

1. Jack Davis - No Sugar (Australian)


2. William Wells Brown - The Escape, Or, A Leap for Freedom: A Drama in Five
Acts. (South African)
Unit 6- Autobiography:

A. Revathi - The Truth About Me: A Hijra Life Story (Transgender)

References:

*Tharu, Susie J. Subject to Change: Teaching Literature in the Nineties. New Delhi: Orient Longman,
1998. Print.

EVALUATION PATTERN

I. Continuous Assessments - Total Marks: 25

1. Two Written Tests & a Model Exam - 15 (Consolidated)


2. Seminars & Assignments - 05
3. Attendance - 05
Total (1+2+3+) = 25 Marks

II. End Semester Exam- Total Marks: 75 (Duration: 3 hours)

# Questions should be given from all units.

Section - A (20x1=20)

* 20 Objective Type Questions with Multiple Choices from all the prescribed texts.

* Questions on the titles and authors of the prescribed works should be avoided.

Section – B (5x5=25)

* FIVE out of EIGHT.

*Short notes or a paragraph questions should be answered in about 200 words.

Section – C (3x10=30)

* THREE out of SIX - either (a) or (b) essay type questions.

* Essay in about 500 words.

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