Course Title: American Literature
Starts: 1st Feb, 2026
Mode: Google Meet
Instructor: Monami Mukherjee
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 Highlights:
Duration: 12 sessions × 2 hours
Classes: Twice a Week, Tuesdays and Saturdays, 7-9 pm
Full Mock Test & Certificate at Course End
Downloadable Class Recordings & Study Materials Provided
Course Fee (One Time):
2000 for Freshers
1500 for Existing and Ex-students
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 / Second-wave feminism, Experimental fiction, Chicano/Latino and Native American literary renaissances
Session 11: Contemporary Literature Part1: 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
Last Date for Registration: 26th Jan, 2026
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