Indian Literature in English-II

Paper Code: 
ENG 612
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

Course Outcomes

Teaching-Learning Strategies

Assessment Strategies

  
 

The students will:

  1.  Develop an understanding of the post-Independence stage of development of Indian writing in English
  2. Investigate and evaluate the socio-cultural milieu of the time; the trends and individual style of the representative writers
  3. Critique various forms of literature and the writers’ themes and issues
  4. Appraise the emergence and growth of Indian Writing in English in the context of colonial experience
  5. Inculcate the research aptitude for literary and cultural studies in the context of texts and translations by Indian authors.

 

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments

 

 

 

 

Learning activities for the students:

Self learning assignments, Effective questions, presentations

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation

 

  

 

13.00

Nissim Ezekiel                                              

Night of the Scorpion

Enterprise

 

A.K. Ramanujan                                          

Obituary

Love Poem for a Wife I

 

Mamta Kalia                                                

Tribute to Papa

Sunday Song

 
 

 

11.00

Nabaneeta Dev Sen

Women Writing in India at the Turn of the Century                                

(from Growing up as a Woman Writer)

Lakshmi Kannan

To Grow or Not to Grow: That’s the Question for Women

(from Growing up…)

 
 

 

12.00

Girish Karnad                                              

The Fire and the Rain

 
 

 

10.00

Mahesh Dattani                                            

Tara

 
 

 

14.00

Anita Nair

Ladies Coupé

 
 

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Source Books:

 

de Souza, Eunice ,ed. Nine Indian  Women Poets: An Anthology. OUP, 2002.

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

Jain, Jasbir, ed. Growing Up as a Woman Writer. Sahitya Akademi, 2005.

Karnad, Girish. Collected Plays. OUP, 1994.

 

Suggested Readings:

 

Bheda , P.D, ed. Indian Women Novelists in English. Sarup, 2005.

D, Ramakrishna. ed. Critical Essays on Indian English Writings. Atlantic, 2005.

Nawale, Arvind M. ed. Critical Essays on Indian English Poetry and Drama: Text and Contexts. Author Press, 2010.

 

e-resources

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV22W72MtO8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3LhxOtPgmg

 

Journals

Contemporary Discourse

International Journal of Gender Studies

 

Academic Year: 
2022-2023