B.Tech

This Subject Includes

• Course No: HS 245
• Course: B.Tech
• Semester: VII
• Title: Race in the American and South African Novel
• Stream: English

• Preamble / Objectives (Optional): This course will introduce students to critical debates on the

  politics of race and racism. Beginning with a history of slavery in North America, we will analyze the

  conditions that made slavery the most significant factor to shape the history of America as a national

  economy divided by race and class. This will be followed by a comparative study of the history of

  race relations and racial segregation in North America and South Africa. The course will also focus

  on the fraught intersections of race, gender and sexuality.

   

  Course Content/ Syllabus (as a single paragraph if it is not containing more than one subject. Sub-topics/

  Sections may be separated by commas(,). Topics may be separated by Semi-Colons(;). Chapters may be separated by

  Full-Stop(.). While starting with broad heading, it may be indicated with Colon symbol before the topics. For

  example: Multi-variable Calculus: Limits of functions, Continuity, ……

   

  American slavery: history of slavery, slavery’s contribution to the American economy, slave

  rebellions; racism and racial politics in North America: the Jim Crow laws, the Civil Rights and Black

  Panther Movements; history of colonialism and race in South Africa, racial divisions and apartheid

  in South Africa; the fraught intersections of race, gender and sexuality; novels to be discussed: Zora

  Neale Hurston: Their Eyes were watching God; James Baldwin: Go tell it on the Mountain; J.M. Coetzee:

  Disgrace; Nadine Gordimer: Burger’s Daughter.

   

   

   

   

   

   

  Books (In case UG compulsory courses, please give it as “Text books” and “Reference books”.

  Otherwise give it as “References”.

  Texts: (Format: Authors, Book Title in Italics font, Volume/Series, Edition Number, Publisher, Year.)

  1. Z. N. Hurston, They Eyes were watching God. General Press. 2019.

  2. J. Baldwin, Go tell it on the Mountain. Penguin UK. 2001.

  3. J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace. Vintage. 2000

  4. N. Gordimer, Burger’s Daughter. Bloomsbury Publishing India Private Limited. 2000

  References: (Format: Authors, Book Title in Italics font, Volume/Series, Edition Number, Publisher,

  Year.)

  1. H. Zinn, A People’s History of the United States. Harper Perennial, 2016.

  2. M. Morris, Apartheid: The History of Apartheid: Race vs. Reason - South Africa from 1948 – 1994.

  Sunbird. 2012.

  3. J. Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room. Modern Library. 2001

  4. T. Morrison, The Song of Solomon. RHUK. 1998.

  5. C. Whitehead, The Underground Railroad. Fleet. 2017.