Indian Literature in English-II

Paper Code: 
ENG 612
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Objective: 
  • To enable the students to get the first hand information about the Indian Literature
  • To inculcate the ability to understand and appreciate the literary assets of India
 
12.00
Nissim Ezekiel
Night of the Scorpion
Enterprise
A.K. Ramanujan
Obituary
Love Poem for a Wife I
Mamta Kalia
Tribute to Papa
Sunday Song
13.00
Mahesh Dattani        
Brief Candle              
 
12.00
Eunice de Souza
“Introduction” (from Nine Indian Women Poets)
Nabaneeta Dev Sen  
“Women Writing in India at the Turn of the Century”                                 
(from Growing up as a Woman Writer)
 
12.00
Girish Karnad
Fire and the Rain
11.00
Shashi Deshpande                                            
That Long Silence 
Source Books: 
  1. Golden Treasury of Indo-English Poetry (edited by V.K. Gokak)
  2. Nine Indian Women Poets: An Anthology (OUP)
  3. Collected Plays by Girish Karnad (OUP)
  4. Rabindranath Tagore : Hungry Stones and Other Stories (Rupa & Co.)
  5. Growing Up as a Woman Writer by Jasbir Jain (ed.) (New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 2007)
 
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  1. K.R.S. Iyengar : Indian Writing in English (New Delhi : Sterling, 1984)
  2. M.K. Naik : Dimensions of Indian English Literature (New Delhi: Sterling,1965)
  3. Meenakshi Mukherjee : The Twice Born Fiction
  4. “Introduction” to Women Writing in India: 600 B.C. to the Present (Vols. I & II) by Susie Tharu and K. Lalitha