Cambridge University Reporter


English Tripos texts and topics 2006: Amendments

The Faculty Board of English give notice that the following amendments have been made to the notice which appeared in the 9 June Reporter, 2004 (p. 810).

PART I, Paper 1, English literature 1300-1550

Topics: Idleness and Inactivity; Christ's Body (the word 'Passion' should be removed)

PART II, Paper 12 (a), Commonwealth and international literature

The following set texts and recommended texts are to be included:

Set Text: George Colman the Younger, Inkle and Yarico (1787) in English Trader, Indian Maid, ed. Frank Felsenstein (Johns Hopkins, 1999)

Recommended Texts: Sir Walter Raleigh, The Discovery of the Empire of Guiana (1596), ed. Neil Whitehead (Manchester, 1999), Captain James Cook, The Journals (1772-1779), ed. Philip Edwards (Penguin, 1999)

Set Text: Amitav Ghosh, In an Antique Land (Granta/Penguin, 1992)

Recommended Texts: Women Writing in India, eds. Susie Tharu and K. Lalita (New York: Feminist Press, 1991; London: Pandora, 1993), Vol.1, The Twentieth Century

Mourid Barghouti, I Saw Ramallah, (Bloomsbury, 2004)

Set Text: Romesh Gunesekera, Reef (Granta/Penguin, 1994)

Recommended Texts: Sara Suleri, Meatless Days (Chicago: 1989; London: Collins, 1990), Lorna Goodison, Guinea Woman: New and Selected Poems (Manchester: Carcanet, 2000)

Set Text: J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace (London: Secker and Warburg, 1999)

Recommended Texts: Dambudzo Marechera, The House of Hunger (Heinemann African Writers, 1978; Penguin Modern Classics), Joy Kogawa, Obasan (Boston: 1982; Penguin Modern Classics, 1983)

Set Text: Bessie Head, A Woman Alone (Heinemann African Writers, 1990)

Recommended Texts: Wole Soyinka, Ake (Rex Collings, 1981; Methuen; Vintage)

Sujata Bhatt, The Stinking Rose (Carcanet, 1995)

Set Text: Wilson Harris, Palace of the Peacock (Faber, 1960)

Recommended Texts: Tayeb Salih: Season of Migration to the North (Heinemann African Writers, 1969; Penguin Modern Classics; Quartet), Patrick White: Voss (Eyre and Spottiswood, 1957; Penguin Modern Classics)

Set Text: Michael Ondaatje, In the Skin of a Lion (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1987; Penguin)

Recommended Texts: Mudroroo Narogin and Jack Davis, Barungin (Smell the Wind), ed. Robert Hodge (Currency Press, 1989), C. L. R. James, Minty Alley (1936); ed. Kenneth Ramchand (London: New Beacon Books)

Set Text: John Kinsella, The Silo (1995); (Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Arc Publications)

Recommended Texts: Derek Walcott, Collected Poems 1948-1984 (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1986), Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1988; Virago)