Indian Literature in English-II

Paper Code: 
ENG 612
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

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
UNIT I: 
 
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
UNIT II: 
Mahesh Dattani

Brief Candle

 

12.00
UNIT III: 
 
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
UNIT IV: 
Girish Karnad

Fire and the Rain

 

11.00
UNIT V: 
Shashi Deshpande

That Long Silence

 

Source Books: 

Source Books :

De Souza, Eunice ,ed. Nine Indian  Women Poets: An Anthology. New Delhi: OUP, 2002.Print.

Gokak, VK, ed. The Golden Treasury of Indo-English Poetry. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi,1977. Print.

Karnad, Girish. Collected Plays. New Delhi: OUP, 1994.Print.

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Suggested Readings :

Bheda , P.D, ed. IndianWomen Novelists in English. New Delhi: Sarup , 2005.Print.

D, Ramakrishna, ed. Critical Essays on Indian English Writings. New Delhi: Atlantic, 2005.Print.

Jain, Jasbir, ed. Growing Up as a Woman Writer. New Delhi: SahityaAkademi, 2007.Print

Nawale, ArvindM , ed. Critical Essays on Indian English Poetry and Drama: Text and Contexts. New  Delhi: Author Press, 2010.Print.     

Academic Year: 
2015-2016