Assignment 1
Name: Malik Muzammil Ali Khan
Student number: 412998
Date: 22/11/14
Course: Sociology of Arts and Culture CC1003-14
Part 1:
1. Griswold’s research question: How does literature reflect society in America during the 19th and 20th century in comparison to foreign countries and their literature over four different time periods?
2. Griswold draws on the different theories as to why American novels are different from foreign novels. The guilt of slavery and the ethnic cleansing of the Native Americans plays a role in the way American novelists write. She also states that American authors wrote a specific genre or for a specific crowd because of an economic motive.
3. The sociological perspective used by Griswold is the conflict theory. She talks about the differences in societies and economic conditions and how all these different aspects have led to the many differences in the literature produced by American authors as compared to foreign authors. There is a constant clash between the data about the American authors and the data about the foreign authors.
4. She collected quantitative data from research conducted by different people …show more content…
“You” are in Lahore, Pakistan after the events of 9/11 and meet the narrator Changez in a teashop where he tells you about his life and the experiences he had in America where studied and worked as an economic analyst. The events of the book take the reader through the course of one evening spent almost entirely in the teashop as Changez reveals his life story to you. Changez later offers to walk “you” back to your hotel. On the way he explains he is a school lecturer and mentor for his students. The novel ends with Changez revealing that “you” have been followed from the teashop. “You” then reach into your jacket and it is up to the reader to decide whether the “you” are a businessman or a CIA
Name: Malik Muzammil Ali Khan
Student number: 412998
Date: 22/11/14
Course: Sociology of Arts and Culture CC1003-14
Part 1:
1. Griswold’s research question: How does literature reflect society in America during the 19th and 20th century in comparison to foreign countries and their literature over four different time periods?
2. Griswold draws on the different theories as to why American novels are different from foreign novels. The guilt of slavery and the ethnic cleansing of the Native Americans plays a role in the way American novelists write. She also states that American authors wrote a specific genre or for a specific crowd because of an economic motive.
3. The sociological perspective used by Griswold is the conflict theory. She talks about the differences in societies and economic conditions and how all these different aspects have led to the many differences in the literature produced by American authors as compared to foreign authors. There is a constant clash between the data about the American authors and the data about the foreign authors.
4. She collected quantitative data from research conducted by different people …show more content…
“You” are in Lahore, Pakistan after the events of 9/11 and meet the narrator Changez in a teashop where he tells you about his life and the experiences he had in America where studied and worked as an economic analyst. The events of the book take the reader through the course of one evening spent almost entirely in the teashop as Changez reveals his life story to you. Changez later offers to walk “you” back to your hotel. On the way he explains he is a school lecturer and mentor for his students. The novel ends with Changez revealing that “you” have been followed from the teashop. “You” then reach into your jacket and it is up to the reader to decide whether the “you” are a businessman or a CIA