Partition Literature

Paper Code: 
25DENG701
Credits: 
06
Periods/week: 
06
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

The Course will enable the students to explore diverse literary texts against the backdrop of the Partition, critique a variety of themes and assess the contribution of women writers on Partition from a female perspective, within an interdisciplinary framework.

 

 

Course Outcomes: 

Thestudents will:

CO37.Analyse diverse literary textsagainstthebackgroundof the Partition

CO38.Examine the impact of the socio-politicalandcultural issuesof colonialism, nationalismandpartition reflected in the prescribed texts

CO39.Critique the

Issuesof homelessness,

exile, communalismandviolenceintheprescribedtexts

CO40. Estimate the role of women writers writing about the Partition from a female perspective.

CO41.Discuss the issues within the critical and theoretical framework from an interdisciplinary perspective

CO42.Contribute effectively in course-specific interaction.
 

 

18.00
Unit I: 

Intizar Hussain

Basti    (tr.Frances W. Pritchett)

18.00
Unit II: 

Ahmed Ali

Twilight in Delhi

20.00
Unit III: 

DibyenduPalit

Alam's Own House

Manik Bandhopadhya

The Final Solution

Attia Hosain

After the Storm

19.00
Unit IV: 

Faiz Ahmad Faiz

For Your Lanes, My Country

 

Lalithambika Antharajanam

A Leaf in the Storm

15.00
Unit V: 

Samaresh Basu

Adab

Gulzar

Toba Tek Singh 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Suggested Reference Books:

Bhutalia,Urvashi.The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India.Kalifor Women, 2000.

Freud, Sigmund. “Mourning and Melancholia”. TheCompletePsychologicalWorksofSigmundFreud.Trans. by James Strachey, Hogarth Press, 1953, pp. 3041–53.

Kumar,PaulSukrita.Narrating Partition.Indialog,2004.

Menon,RituandKamlaBhasin.“Introduction”.BordersandBoundaries.KaliforWomen,1998.

 

E-Resources including links:

https://www.litcharts.com/lit/the-shadow-lines/summaryhttp://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00litlinks/basti/index.html

 

ReferenceJournal:

IgnitedMindsJournals

 

Academic Year: 
2025-2026