B.Tech

This Subject Includes

• Course No: HS 225
• Course: B.Tech
• Semester: VII
• Title: Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Autobiography
• Stream: English
• Description:

  Understanding and revisiting autobiography as a literary genre; The ideology of the genre in traditional autobiography: roles and functions; Autobiography as a means of self-expression: personal and social growth; Elements and shape of stories in crafting Life Narratives: Time and Language; Confession: the narrative self and Identity: history, race, ethnography and culture; The politics of subjectivity and resistance; Tensions between creativity, verisimilitude and sacred secrets; Interplay between Self, Mind and Inner Speech; Connection of- Autobiography to memory, terror, trauma, , gender, class and space; Autobiography- and Truth: forms of truth, fiction and truth; Journaling- as a central feature of autobiographic narrative- :- the beginnings, the objective and the- scientific, rhetoric and style; Revising Autobiography, Almanac and Memoir; Imagining future- autobiographical manifestoes in media and technology: alternative futures for the 21st Century , websites as new sites for Life Narratives, blogging- and weblogs as public journals.

• Text:

  1. A.P.J., Abdul Kalam, Wings of Fire: An Autobiography of APJ. Abdul Kalam, Orient Longman, 1999.2. M.K., Gandhi, An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth, Beacon Press, (Reprint) 1993.3. N., Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela Tag, Back Bay Books, 1995.4. C. L., Hobbs, The Elements of Autobiography and Life Narratives, University of Oklahoma, Longman, 2004.

• Course References:

  1. M. L. King Jr., The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr., Warner Books, 2001.2. A. Hitler, Mein Kampf, Mariner Books, Reissue edition, 1998.3. M. Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York, Bantam, 1971.4. M. M. Bakhtin, The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays, M., Holquist, (Ed), Austin, University of Texas Press, 19815. B. Franklin-s Autobiography, W. W. Norton & Company, 1985.6. J. J. Rousseau, Confessions, W. C., Mallory (Trans), 1782 (1st published), eBooks@Adelaide, 2004.7. A. Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, 1947, (1st published), Bantam, 1993.8. D. Lama. Freedom in Exile, San Francisco, Harper, 1991.