I would love a few suggestions for texts to use for 11th graders:
1. alternative(s) to Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things; would be great if it were contemporary (postcolonial) and Hindu focused. Given she is the only woman author we read the entire year (yes, I know... don't get me started), it would also be useful if it were a woman, but finding a good novel about postcolonial India is preferred. Oh, and fewer than 320 pages. Enough requirements?
2. A secondary text--could be a chapter or two--that would allow students to grapple with the complex perception and understanding of caste in contemporary India (as presented by Ramya today).
Oh, and for some reason Blogger has my apparent last name initial as C. This is actually my middle name initial, not my last name. Just in case it confused anyone who by chance were paying attention to such minutiae.
Thank you!
Manju Kapur, Difficult Daughters -- really good on history, women's education, gender, religion, social reform, less so on caste.
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I need to think of what else could be used ...
Thank you, Ramya!
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