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Indian Literature in English-II [1]

Paper Code: 
ENG 612
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

To enable the students to get the first hand information about the Indian Literature

To inculcate the ability to understand and appreciate the literary assets of India

12.00
Unit I: 
Unit 1

Nissim Ezekiel 

Night of the Scorpion

Enterprise

 

A.K. Ramanujan 

Obituary

Love Poem for a Wife I

 

Mamta Kalia 

Tribute to Papa

Sunday Song

13.00
Unit II: 
Unit 2

Mahesh Dattani  

Brief Candle            

12.00
Unit III: 
Unit 3

Eunice de Souza 

“Introduction” (from Nine Indian Women Poets)

 

Nabaneeta Dev Sen 

“Women Writing in India at the Turn of the Century” (from Growing up as a Woman Writer)

 

12.00
Unit IV: 
Unit 4

Girish Karnad

Fire and the Rain

11.00
Unit V: 
Unit 5

Shashi Deshpande  

That Long Silence

Source Books: 
  • Golden Treasury of Indo-English Poetry (edited by V.K. Gokak)
  • Nine Indian Women Poets: An Anthology (OUP)
  • Collected Plays by Girish Karnad (OUP)
  • Rabindranath Tagore : Hungry Stones and Other Stories (Rupa & Co.)
  • Growing Up as a Woman Writer by Jasbir Jain (ed.) (New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 2007)
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • K.R.S. Iyengar : Indian Writing in English (New Delhi : Sterling, 1984)
  • M.K. Naik : Dimensions of Indian English Literature (New Delhi: Sterling,1965)
  • Meenakshi Mukherjee : The Twice Born Fiction
  •  “Introduction” to Women Writing in India: 600 B.C. to the Present (Vols. I & II) by Susie Tharu and K. Lalitha
Academic Year: 
2014-2015 [2]

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