Exploring the World of Children : A Study of Selected Fictional Works of Suniti Namjoshi

Paper Code: 
ENG 144 (b) - Option 9

Unit I

Children’s Literature : Characteristics, Fantasy and Fable 

Unit II

Suniti Namjoshi’s Children’s Literature: Charaterization,Themes /Feminist Perspective

Unit III

Suniti Namjoshi’s Children’s Literature : Narrative Technique ( Myth making, adaptation and retelling)

Unit IV

A Study of Aditi and One-Eyed Monkey

Unit V

 A Study of Aditi and Thames Dragon

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Reading List :

Dwivedi, A N. Papers on Indian Writing in English Volume 1: Poetry. Delhi:Atlantic, 2001.Print.

Deshmane,Chetan . Muses India. Essays on English-Language Writers from Mahomet to Rushdie. Jefferson: McFarland, 2013.Print

Jain, Jasbir. Problems of Postcolonial Literature and Other Essays. Jaipur: Printwell, 1991.Print.

Kanaganayakam, Chelvanayakam.  Counterrealism and Indo-Anglian Fiction. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2009.Print.

—. Configurations of Exile: South Asian Writers and Their World. Toronto: TSAR, 1995.Print.

Kandiuk, Mary.  Caribbean and South Asian Writers in Canada: A Bibliography of Their Works and of English-language Criticism. Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 2007.Print.

Mendlesohn, Farah. Rhetorics of Fantasy. Middletown: Wesleyan UP, 2008.Print.

Singh, Kanwar Dinesh. Contemporary Indian English Poetry: Comparing Male and Female Voices. New Delhi: Atlantic, 2008.Print.

—. Feminism and Postfeminism: The Context of Modern Indian Women Poets Writing in English. New Delhi: Sarup, 2004.Print

Swami, Indu. Voice and Vision of Women Writers in Indian English Literature. VDM Verlag, 2012.Print.

Vanita, Ruth, ed. ‘“Do I Remove My Skin?”: Interrogating Identity in Suniti Namjoshi’s Fables’. Queering India: Same-Sex Love and Eroticism in Indian Culture and Society. New York: Routledge, 2002.Print.

Varma, Monika. Facing Four: A Critical Opinion on the Poetry of Suniti Namjoshi, Gauri Deshpande, Kamala Das, Bharati Sarabhai. Calcutta: Writers Workshop, 1973.Print.

Vijayasree, C. Suniti Namjoshi: The Artful Transgressor. Jaipur: Rawat, 2001.Print.

Raymond E. Jones, Characters in children's Literature. Detroit. London: Gale Research, 1997.Print.

Hunt , Peter.International companion encyclopedia of Children's Literature.  2nd ed. 2 vols. London: Routledge, 2004.Print.

Carpenter, Humphrey  and Mari Prichard, The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984.Print.

 Hunt, Peter. Understanding Children's Literature. London: Routledge, 1998. Print.

Menon, Radhika. An Overview of India Chidren’s Literature in English. Trivendrum.Tulika Publication:2009,Print.

Stableford, Brian.The A to Z of Fantasy Literature.UK: Scarecrow Press.2009 ,Print.

Clute, John and John Grant. The Encyclopedia of Fantasy. UK: Orbit Books.1997, Print.

Denman, Margaret West. Children’s Literature: A Guide to Information on Sources. Colorado. Libraries Unlimited: 1998.Print.

Desai, Rakesh. Narrating Child: Indian Context. New Delhi: Sarup Books,2014. Print.

Academic Year: 
2018-2019