UNIVERSITY OF GUJRAT

BS English

Course Description:

The Course includes an introduction to Pak literature including some forms of Pak literature: Novel,
short stories, poetry.

Students Leaning Outcomes:

1. After studying the course, students will be familiar with literature from the region.
2. They will be able to appreciate Pakistani literary experience and the impact of cultural
exchange towards its enrichment.

Week 1 Lecture 1 Introduction to Pakistani Literature in English

Lecture 2 Introduction to Pakistani Poetry

Week 2 Lecture 1 Daud Kamal’s An Ode to Death

Lecture 2 Taufiq Rafat’s The Stone Chat

Week 3 Lecture 1 Taufiq Rafat’s The Last Visit,

Lecture 2 Taufiq Rafat’s Thinking of Mohenjodaro

Week 4 Lecture 1 Alamgir Hashmi’s But Where is the Sky?

Lecture 2 Alamgir Hashmi’s Autumnal 1984

Week 5 Lecture 1 Muneeza Shamsie’s Jungle Jim

Lecture 2 Muneeza Shamsie’s Jungle Jim

Week 6 Lecture 1 Muneeza Shamsie’s Shaharzad’s Golden Leopard

Lecture 2 Muneeza Shamsie’s Shaharzad’s Golden Leopard

Week 7 Lecture 1 Tariq Rehman’s Babu

Lecture 2 Tariq Rehman’s Babu

Week 8 Mid Term

Week 9 Lecture 1 Tariq Rehman’s The Computer

Lecture 2 Tariq Rehman’s The Computer

Week 10 Lecture 1 Introduction to Pakistani Fiction

 Lecture 2 Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice-Candy Man (Novel)

Week 11 Lecture 1 Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice-Candy Man (Novel)

Lecture 2 Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice-Candy Man (Novel)

Week 12 Lecture 1 Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice-Candy Man (Novel)

Lecture 2 Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice-Candy Man (Novel)

Week 13 Lecture 1 Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice-Candy Man (Novel)

Lecture 2 Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice-Candy Man (Novel)

Week 14 Lecture 1 Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice-Candy Man (Novel)

Lecture 2 Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice-Candy Man (Novel)

Week 15 Lecture 1 Group presentations

Lecture 2 Group presentations

Week 16 Lecture 1 Group presentations

Lecture 2 Group presentations

Recommended Readings:

1. Afzal-Khan, Fawzia. Cultural Imperialism and the Indo-English: Genre and ideology in
R. K. Narayan, Anita Desai, Kamla Das and Markandaya. Pennsylvania State University
Press,1993
2. Bose, Sujata& Jalal Ayesha, Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political, Economy.
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Oxford U P (2 Ed) ,2004
3. Hashmi, Alamgir. Kamal Daud’s Entry in Encyclopaedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in
English. Vol 1. Ed Benson E.& Connolly, L W. London: Routledge, 1994
4. Jameson, Fredric. Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capital in Social
text15, Fall 1986
5. Khawaja Waqas A, Morning in the Wilderness: Reading in Pakistani Literature. Sang-e-
Meel Publications, Lahore
6. Rahman, T. Shamsie, M. A Fly in the Sun
7. Rahman, Tariq A, History of Pakistani Literature in English. Vanguard Press (Pvt) Ltd,
Lahore 1991
8. Said Edward W, Culture and Imperialism, Vintage London 1993