S291 - Exploring culture through Games at Twilight by Anita Desai (set reading for IGCSE 2010/2011)

Sessions	Dates	Start	Finish
1	14 Sep 2010	05:30 PM	08:30 PM
2	28 Sep 2010	05:30 PM	08:30 PM
3	05 Oct 2010	05:30 PM	08:30 PM

IGCSE, literature and language teachers interested in the "new literatures" and in reading about Indian Writing in English.

- To promote a context-based approach to the reading of texts which lend themselves to exploring the "New Literatures" in Englishes.
- To look for and build strategies to raise teachers and students’ awareness of specific cultures, such as the Indian one, and their worlds of meaning.

Contents: A set of short stories from Games at Twilight.
- Central themes in the short stories and thematic threads cutting them across.
- Narrative structure of the short stories.
- Symbols and motifs.
- Cultural gaps.
- The issues of displacement and acculturation.

- ASHCROFT, GRIFFITHS, TIFFIN (1989) The Empire Writes Back, London: Routledge.
- ASHCROFT, GRIFFITHS, TIFFIN (1995) The Post- Colonial Reader, London: Routledge.
- BOEHMER, E. (1995) Colonial and Post-Colonial Literature, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- CHRKRAVARTY. J. (ed). (2003). Indian Writing in English: Perspectives, New Delhi: Atlantic.
- GRADDOL, D. (1997) The Future of English?, London: The British Council.
- KACHRU, B. (1992) The Other Tongue, Urbana: University of Illinois Press
- KUMAR, G (2001). Indian English Literature: a New Perspective, New Delhi: Sarup.
- KUNDU R. (ed) (2003). Indian Writing in English. Vol II, New Delhi: Atlantic;
- RAY M. K. (ed) (2003). Indian Writing in English. Vol I, New Delhi: Atlantic;

- Presentation and discussion of how to approach "the New Literatures". - Indian background and culture. - Signs of Indianness in a text written in English 4) Guided group reflection and exchange of ideas on the main themes and issues raised by the text. - Reading of key extracts in the short stories and reflection on how they mean.