MEG 06: American Literature aims to familiarize learners with the varied literature of America written by writers reflecting life, history and society of America. This course offers learners an opportunity to study American literary tradition from the period of the emergence of Puritanism as the hegemonic American ideology to the pre and post civil war literature. The learners are introduced to the African American writings with marginalized writers such as Toni Morrison who bring out the repression of the native American society through writings. Modern and contemporary American literature of the 20th century includes Eugene O’Neill and Arthur Miller.This course gives the learners an opportunity to understand today’s global environment through novels, stories plays and poems. It studies American people’s creative thoughts and imaginations. By reading texts from different periods by varied authors the learners will be able to understand America’s struggle to modernity and how it changed over time to become a powerful nation of the world.
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Dr. Mridula Rashmi Kindo is an Associate Professor at Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) New Delhi. She holds her graduate degree from Delhi University and her Post Graduate and M. Phil Degrees from Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her PhD is on South African Literature. She has more than twenty years of teaching experience. Her areas of specializations include: South African Literature, New Literatures in English, Literature from the Margins, and Translation Studies. She has designed and developed Bachelor’s Degree and Master’s Degree courses of English. She has chaired sessions and presented papers in various National and International conferences. She has published several papers in National and International Journals of repute.
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Dr. Mridula Rashmi Kindo
