In this module, you will be introduced to the publication and the aspects of memory which are in an inherent part of many discussions in the context of Midnight’s Children and the political allegory that narrates the story of modern India. Next, you will learn the political nature of the act of writing, the narrative elements and strategies adopted. Finally, you will learn how difficult it can be to settle in a new society, the unspoken things and details of the diasporic experience.

In this module, you will be introduced to the character and the many narrative elements and techniques of Marquez's work which includes how an object of art also can be seen in different ways and how the right kind of person with the aesthetic sensibility can understand this. You will also learn the typical modernist poem and one of the most difficult of the 20th-century and an iconic representative literary piece of the modernist period.

In this module, you will be introduced to the classical literature references and the narratives within which the book The Wall continues to be situated in a canonical status and the dilemma of engaging with existentialism, life, death and the power of human will. You will also learn the ways in which the personal and the political intersect Sylvia Plath's ideas of feminism marriage, gender stereotypes and social pressures.