Indian Literature in English-II

Paper Code: 
ENG 612
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Objective: 

Objectives :

  • 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

 

MamtaKalia                                                                   

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                                                               

The Fire and the Rain

 

11.00

Shashi Deshpande                                                    

That Long Silence

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: 

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.                 

 

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