Paper IV: Gender Identities and Queer Choices in Selected Writings of K.R.Meera, Vasudhendra and Sachin Kundalkar’s Selected Writings in Translation

Paper Code: 
ENG 144 (E)
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
60/per sem
Max. Marks: 
100
Unit I: 
Unit I

Gender Identities and Queer Choices

  • Chakraborty,Aditi. “Queer Literature in India: Visible Voices of the Sexual Subalterns”.IJRS.Vol. no.7.382-87.
  • Gender Inequality and Literature: A Contemporary Issue

            (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/348164185_Gender_Inequality_and_Litera            ture_A_Contemporary_Issue)

 

Unit II: 
Unit II

The Art of Translation

  • Translation Literature in India

(https://www.researchgate.net/publication/230814146)

 

Unit III: 
Unit III
  • K R Meera : Yellow is the Colour of Longing  (2016) : “Ave Maria”, “ Yellow is the Colour of Longing”, “What the Souls do at Midnight”, “The Saga of Krishna”, “Same Sex Sorrows”, “Guillotine” and Hangwoman (2016)

 

Unit IV: 
Unit IV

Vasudhendra: Mohanswamy (2013)

 

Unit V: 
Unit V

Sachin Kundalkar : Cobalt Blue (2013)

 

Source Books: 

Suggested Reading:

Anderman, Gunilla and Rogers, Margaret (eds.). Translation Today: Trends and         Perspectives. New Delhi: Viva Books.2010.

Beauvoir, Simone de. The Second Sex, Howard Madison Parshley (trans.). Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982. pp. 330-59 (2011 E-book version)

Butler, J. Gender trouble: Feminism and the subversion of identity. New York: Routledge, 1990.

Chatterjee, Niladri. Review of Because I Have a Voice: Queer Politics in India, ed. by Arvind Narrain and Gautam Bhan. Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context, no. 14, Nov. 2006, intersections.anu.edu.au/issue14/chatterjee_review.html. Accessed 20 Sept. 2013.

Das, Bijay Kumar. A Handbook of Translation Studies. New Delhi: Atlantic.2009.

Gentzler, Edwin.Contemporary Translation Theory. New Delhi: Viva Books.2010.

Heath, Jennifer, 2008. The Veil: Women Writers on Its History, Lore, and Politics, University of California Press, 2008. (Invisible and Visible Spaces)

Heberle, Renee J., Taylor and Francis.Theorizing Sexual Violence, Routelage (Sexual Violence and Objectification, Fighting Rape) .2009.

Mehta,Sandhya Rao. Exploring Gender in the Literature of the Indian Diaspora. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.2015.

Palekar, Shalmalee. “Picturing Queer India(s).” Contemporary Culture and Media in Asia, edited by Daniel Black, Olivia Khoo, and Koichi Iwabuchi. London: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2016, pp. 157-73.

Palekar, Shalmalee.Out! and New Queer Indian Literature https://doi.org/10.26262/gramma.v25i0.6595.

Ray, Mohit, K.  Studies in Translation. New Delhi: Atlantic.2008.

. Riccardi, Alessandra. Translation Studies: Perspectives on an Emerging . Discipline. New Delhi: Cambridge University Press India Pvt. Ltd.2010.

 

 

 

Academic Year: 
2022-2023