Post-Colonial Literature – II

Paper Code: 
ENG 423 – B
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

•         To familiarize the students with the respective literary ages and their salient features, various literary movements and trends and the representative writers and their individual traits.

12.00
Unit I: 
Unit 1

Ashis Nandy

The Intimate Enemy

11.00
Unit II: 
Unit 2

Meena Alexander

Blood Line

Everything Strikes Loose

South of the Nilgiris 

12.00
Unit III: 
Unit 3

R. Parthasarathy

From Exile

From Homecoming

 

Arun Kolatkar

the Boatride

11.00
Unit IV: 
Unit 4

Keki N. Daruwalla

Pestilence in 19th Century Calcutta

 

Nissim Ezekiel

from Ruminations

Goodbye Party …

Poem of the Separation

14.00
Unit V: 
Unit 5

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: 
2017-2018