Indian and New Literatures in English

Program Class: DEGREE / BA

Year: THIRD

Semester: SIXTH

Subject: ENGLISH

Course Title: Indian & New Literatures in English

Course Learning Outcomes:

After completing this course, the students will be able to:

· Appreciate the styles and poetic sensibilities of poets like Toru Dutt, Nissim Ezekiel, Jayant Mahapatra and Keki N. Daruwala.

· Critically analyse the drama as a medium of exploration of existing social issues.

· Understand the socio-cultural-political conditions of the contemporary India as explored in the fiction of writers like Kamala Markandaya.

· Compare the works of Indian writers in English and the English writers.

· Comprehend Indian freedom struggle and the trauma of the partition.

· Appraise the values and issues arising from colonialism.

· Comprehend ‘New Literatures’ in its own cultural, social and geographical specification.

· Comprehend the poetic discourses of poets like Pablo Neruda, Margaret Atwood, Judith Wright, Patrick White and Sujata Bhatt.

· Understand the identity issues and marginalization through a study of the works of Indira Goswami and Naipaul.

Credits: 05

Core Compulsory

Max. Marks: –25+75

Min. Passing Marks: 33

Unit

Topics

I

Prose

Mahatma Gandhi- Hind Swaraj: XVII- Passive

Resistance, XVIII- Education

 Or 

Swami Vivekanand’s Chicago Speech, 11 Sept, 27 Sept, 1893

II

Poetry

Toru Dutt: *Lakshman

Nissim Ezekiel: *The Poet, Lover and Bird Watcher

Kamala Das: *An Introduction

Rabindranath Tagore: *Song I (from Gitanjali)

III

Drama

Mahesh Dattani- *The Moring Raga OR

Asif Currimbhoy- The Doldrummers. 

IV

Fiction

Kamala Markandaya- Nectar in a Sieve Or

Mulk Raj Anand- Untouchable

V

Prose

Frantz Fanon- Black Skin, White Masks Chapter 4 Or

Nivedita Menon- Seeing Like a Feminist Chapter 2

VI

Poetry

Pablo Neruda: *If You Forget Me

Margaret Atwood: *Spellings

Patrick White: *Voss

Judith Wright: *The Company of Lovers

VII

Fiction

Nadine Gordimer- A Guest of Honour OR

Indira Goswami- The Moth-Eaten Howdah of the Tusker

VIII

Drama

Wole Soyinka- The Lion and the Jewel OR

Trey Anthony- ‘da Kink in My Hair