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Indian Literature in English-II [1]

Paper Code: 
ENG 612
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

The course will enable the students to:

  • Trace the post-Independence stage of development of Indian writing in English
  • Assess the socio-cultural milieu of the time; the trends and individual style of the representative writers
  • Appraise the various forms of literature and the writers’ themes and issues

 

12.00
Unit I: 
Unit I

Nissim Ezekiel                                                             

Night of the Scorpion

Enterprise

 

A.K. Ramanujan                                                          

Obituary

Love Poem for a Wife I

 

MamtaKalia                                                                   

Tribute to Papa

Sunday Song

12.00
Unit II: 
Unit II

NabaneetaDevSen

Women Writing in India at the Turn of the Century                                

 (fromGrowing up as a Woman Writer)

 

Lakshmi Kannan

To Grow or Not to Grow: That’s the Question for Women

(fromGrowing up… )

13.00
Unit III: 
Unit III

GirishKarnad                                                                

The Fire and the Rain

12.00
Unit IV: 
Unit IV

Mahesh Dattani                                                          

Tara

11.00
Unit V: 
Unit V

Anita Nair

Ladies Coupé

Source Books: 

Source Books :

 

de Souza, Eunice ,ed. Nine Indian  Women Poets: An Anthology. OUP, 2002.

Gokak, VK, ed. The Golden Treasury of Indo-English Poetry. Sahitya Akademi,1977.

Jain, Jasbir, ed. Growing Up as a Woman Writer. Sahitya Akademi, 2005.

Karnad, Girish. Collected Plays. OUP, 1994.

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Suggested Readings :

 

Bheda , P.D, ed. IndianWomen Novelists in English. Sarup, 2005.

D, Ramakrishna. ed. Critical Essays on Indian English Writings. Atlantic, 2005.

Nawale, ArvindM. ed. Critical Essays on Indian English Poetry and Drama: Text and Contexts. Author Press, 2010.

Academic Year: 
2020-2021 [2]

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[1] https://english.iisuniv.ac.in/courses/subjects/indian-literature-english-ii-2
[2] https://english.iisuniv.ac.in/academic-year/2020-2021