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Paper 8 : Contemporary literature

 * Chinua Achebe:		 Things Fall Apart (Heinemann edition with notes)
 * Nadine Gordimer:		 My Son's Story
 * Gabriel Garcia Marquez:	Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Penguin)
 * Dario Fo:	 Accidental Death of an Anarchist (edited by Javed Malick,Worldview Methuen Edition) 
 * Ngugi wa Thiongo: 	The Trial of Dedan Kemathi (edited by Sanjay Kumar)Worldview Heinemann Edition)
 * Pablo Neruda:	Poetry, Tonight I Can Write, The Way Spain Was, Arspoetica, Discoverers of Chile, Ode to a Tomato 
 * Derek Walcott:		 A Far Cry From Africa, Goats and Monkeys, Names, The Sea is History
 * Margaret Atwood:	Spelling, This a Photograph of Me, Procedures for Underground, The Animals in That Country, The land lady

Background Prose Readings:

 * 'Franz Fanon,(on colour prejudice) from Blak Skin, White Maskes (Paladin editon,1970), pp.21-29
 * 'Ngugi wa Thiongo, from "The Language of Arican Literature,' In Decolonising the Mind, chapter 1, sections 4-6
 * 'Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Nobel Prize acceptance speech, In Gabriel Garcia Marquez: New Reading ,eds. Bernard McGuirk and Richard Carwell (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987)
 * 'V.S. Naipaul, 'East Indian,' In The Overcrowded Barracoon (Penguin,1976),pp.32-41

Background Topics
Magic Realism; Literature and Revolution;Literature and Culture Identity; Writing for the New World Audience.

Paper 9: Modern European Drama

 * Henrik Ibsen:Ghosts(Methuen Worldview)
 * August Strindberg:Miss Julie (Methuen Worldview)
 * Bertolt Brecht:The Good Woman of Szechuan (Methuen Worldview)
 * Jean Genet:The Balcony (edited by B.Mangalam and Dilip K.Basu)
 * ionesco:The Rhinocerous (edited by Dilip K. Basu and B.Mangalam)

Background prose readings:

 * 'Bertolt Brecht 	'The Street Scene' (pp.121-8), ' Theatre for Pleasure or 'Theatre for Instruction' (pp.68-76) and 'Dramatic Theatre vs. Epic Theatre'   (chart)-(p.31) from Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic  ed.John Willet (London: Metheun,1992)
 * 'Antonin Artuad 	'No More Masterpieces,' from The Theatre and its Double (London: Calder and Boyars.1970), pp.55-63
 * 'George Steiner	 [On Modern Tragedy], from The Death of Tragedy (London: Faber), pp.303-24.
 * 'Stanislavki 	An Actor Prepares (Penguin), chapter 8: 'Faith and the Sense    of Truth,' sections 1,2,7,8,9 (pp.121-5,137-46)
 * 'Jean Genet	 Reflection on Theatre (London:Faber).chapter 2: ' The Strange Word Urb...,' pp. 63-74
 * 'Raymond Williams	 Tragedy and Revolltuion,' In Modern Tragedy, rev.edn.(London: Verso,1979),pp. 61-84.