Course Title
NibblePop Course on American Literature
Live Course on Google Meet
Started from 1st Feb, 2026
Instructor: Monami Mukherjee
Course Highlights
- 12 sessions × 2 hours
- Twice a Week, Tuesdays and Saturdays, 7–9 pm
- Full Mock Test & Certificate at Course End
- Downloadable Class Recordings & Study Materials
- Course Fee: ₹1,000
Course Objective
This course offers a chronological and thematic study of American literature from Pre-Colonial oral traditions to contemporary digital and speculative writing. Students will explore how historical moments—colonization, revolution, slavery, industrialization, war, civil rights movements, globalization, and climate crisis—shape literary forms, voices, and ideologies. The course foregrounds diversity, resistance, identity, and experimentation while tracing evolving ideas of the “American Dream.”
Course Outline
Session 1: Pre Colonial: Oral Tradition, Trickster Tales, Exploration Narratives
Session 2: Colonial Period: Captivity Narratives, Puritan Literature
Session 3: American Revolution, Enlightenment, Rationalism, Sentimentalism
Session 4: Romanticism and Transcendentalism: American Renaissance, Gothic Romanticism, Individualism, Self-reliance
Session 5: Abolitionism
Session 6: Realism and Naturalism: Regionalism, Local Colour, Diverse American experiences
Session 7: Modernism: Early Modernism and Formal Experiment, The Lost Generation and Post–World War I Disillusionment, Modern American Lyric and Individual Choice
Session 8: Jazz Age Culture and the Harlem Renaissance
Session 9: Critique of the American Dream and Social Protest
Session 10: Postmodernism: Beat Generation, Confessional Poetry, Civil Rights Era literature, Feminist literature, Experimental fiction, Chicano/Latino and Native American literary renaissances
Session 11: Contemporary Literature Part 1: Multiculturalism, Globalization and Postcolonialism, Immigrants, LGBTQ+
Session 12: Contemporary Literature Part 2: Genre-blending, Climate crisis, Autofiction and Hybrid Forms, Post-9/11 literature, Digital literature, Afrofuturism and speculative fiction
Who should join?
- Literature students (UG/PG)
- Competitive exam aspirants (NET, SET, GATE, UPSC, CUETPG)
- Anyone interested in English literature
For registration and queries, WhatsApp 9163520212.