Post-Colonial Literature – II

Paper Code: 
ENG 423 – B
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

  • The course will enable the students to:

    • Be exposed to a critical introduction to the highly contested field of postcolonial literature
    • Navigate the complex maze of theoretical terms and concepts that characterize postcolonial studies and the condition of postcoloniality
    • Have a literary engagement with a nation’s consciousness through the themes of colonialism, liberation, independence, tradition, modernity, individualism, community, socialism, etc.
12.00
Unit I: 

Ashis Nandy

The Intimate Enemy

11.00
Unit II: 

Meena Alexander

Blood Line

Everything Strikes Loose

South of the Nilgiris

12.00
Unit III: 

R. Parthasarathy

From Exile

From Homecoming

 

Arun Kolatkar

the Boatride

11.00
Unit IV: 

Keki N. Daruwalla

Pestilence in 19th Century Calcutta

 

Nissim Ezekiel

from Ruminations

Goodbye Party …

Poem of the Separation

14.00
Unit V: 

Michael Ondaatje

The English Patient

 

Les Murray

Wilderness

 

Judith Wright

Woman to Man

The Harp and the King

Nigger’s Leap

SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Deftereos, Christine. Ashis Nandy and the Cultural Politics of Selfhood. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1999. Print.
  • Inamdar, F.A. Critical Spectrum: The Poetry of Keki N. Daruwalla. New Delhi: Mittal Publications, 1991. Print.
  • Innes, C.L. The Cambridge Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Print.
  • Patke, Rajeev. Postcolonial Poetry in English. London: OUP, 2008. Print.
  • Roberts, Neil, ed. A Companion to Twentieth Century Poetry. New Jersey: Blackwell, 2001.Print.

 

Academic Year: 
2019-2020