Direct quotations must be distinguished from indirect quotations through the use of quotation marks. For the difference between the two, please see https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/563/01/Cite approximately two quotes (direct or indirect) per paragraph. Keep the length of each quotation to approximately 1-2 lines each time. Integrate each quote into a paragraph by discussing or commenting on it. You must demonstrate that you have read Animal’s People by quoting from the beginning, middle, and end of the novel. You must use at least 2 essays (read since 3/08) from the syllabus, excluding the novel. You may use up to 2 outside sources and, if you do, use them sparingly. Please note that outside research is secondary to the novel and the essays from the reader. All quotes (direct and indirect) must be acknowledged using parenthetical citation and a works cited page. Your works cited page or bibliography must follow the MLA or APA styles. Number your pages and indicate word count at the end of the essay.
How does Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People function as a counter history (or alternative history) to the official history of the Bhopal disaster? To what extent can this form of “counter-hegemonic” narrative compare with farmers’ movements like tebhaga and navdanya (see Shiva)? If globalization is a form of ecological imperialism (Shrivastava and Kothari), how does Animal’s Peoplefunction as an anti-imperial narrative? If novels (and literature in general) are considered a history from below (as opposed to top down methods), how does Indra Sinha achieve this “subaltern” history through his narrator Animal? What is gained and what is lost in fictionalizing the worst industrial disaster that the world has seen?
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