Indian and New Literatures in English
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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
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Topics
I
Prose
Mahatma Gandhi- Hind Swaraj: XVII- Passive
Resistance, XVIII- Education
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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
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