Department of English
University of Hyderabad
Ph. D English
Semester – I, August – November 2016
4 credits
Student: Asima Baral
B. Krishnaiah
Wednesday 09-11
Tentative Title: ‘Introduction to Dalit Literature’
This course intends to provide the important features and genres of Dalit Literature. It answers the
questions such as Who are Dalits in India? How they entered the domain of literary writing? What are the
movements that influenced Dalit Writers significantly? What are the concerns they choose for their
writing? It foregrounds the questions of untouchability, discrimination, oppression, atrocities,
exploitation, gender discrimination, etc. of the Dalits in India. It also focuses on the protest/rebellious
voice of the Dalit writers who condemn the inhuman treatment is meted out to the Dalits in Indian
society.
Background Study:
“Introduction: Dalit Literature Past, Present and Future.” Arjun Dangle Ed. Poisoned Bread: Translations
from Modern Marathi Dalit Literature. Hyderabad: Orient Longman. 1994.
Dasan, M. “Dalit Movements and Literature in Post-Ambedkar Era: Emerging Issues and
Challenges.” Dalit Movements and Literature: Emerging Issues and Challenges. Ed. B.
Krishnaiah. New Delhi: Prestige Publishers International, 2011.
Autobiography
Limbale, Sharan Kumar. The Outcaste (Akkarmashi). Translated from Marathi by Santosh Bhoomkar.
New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Bama. Karukku. New Delhi: OUP, 2012.
Poetry
Dhasal, Namdeo. ‘Hunger,’ ‘Ode to Dr. Ambedkar: 1978’ (Equality for all or Death to India)” Namdeo
Dhasal: Poet of the Underworld. (Poems 1972-2006). Selected,, introduced and translated by Dilip
Chitre. Chennai: Navayana Publishers, 2007.
Sikhamani. ‘Steel Nibs are Sprouting…’ Translated from Telugu by Kiranmayi Indraganti. Steel Nibs are
Sprouting: New Dalit Writing from South India Dossier – II. Ed. By K.Satyanarayana and Susie
Tharu. Noida: Harper Collins, 2013.
Hanumanthaiah, N.K. ‘Untouchable! Yes, I Am.’ Translated from Kannada by Ankur Betageri. Steel Nibs
are Sprouting: New Dalit Writing from South India Dossier – II. Ed., by K. Satyanarayana and Susie
Tharu. Noida: Harper Collins, 2013.
Swarupa Rani, Challapalli. “Water.” The Exercise of Freedom. Ed. Satyanarayana, K and Susie Tharu
New Delhi: Navayana, 2013.
Fiction
Sivakami. The Grip of Change. Translated from Tamil by the author. Chennai: Orient Blackswan, 2009.
Gunasekaran, K. A. The Scar. Translated from Tamil by V. Kadambari. New Delhi: Orient
Blackswan, 2009.
Drama
Gunasekaran, K.A. Touch. Translated from Tamil by Ravi Shankar. The Oxford India Anthology of Tamil
Dalit Writing. Ed. by Ravi Kumar and Azhagarasan. New Delhi: OUP, 2016.
Criticism
Ambedkar, B. R. Annihilation of Caste. (1936). New Delhi: Critical Quest, 2007.
Limbale, Sharankumar. Towards an Aesthetics of Dalit Literature: History Controversies and
Considerations. Translated from Marathi by Alok Mukherjee. New Dalhi: Orient Black Swan,
2010.
Suggested Reading:
Satyanarayana, K and Susie Tharu Ed. The Exercise of Freedom. New Delhi: Navayana, 2013.
Nimbalkar, Waman: Dalit Literature: Nature and Role. Nagpur: Prabodhan Prakashan, 2006.
Aloysius, G. Periyar on Islam. New Delhi: Critical Quest, 2004.
Bandyopadhyay, Sekhar. The Namasudra Movement. New Delhi: Critical Quest, 2005.
Rajah, M.C. The Opperessed Hindus. (2005). New Delhi: Critical Quest, 1925.
Teltumbde, Anand et al. Eds. Hindutva and Dalits: Perspectives for Understanding Communal Praxis.
Kolkatta: Samya, 2005.
Manohar, D. Murali, ed. Dalits and Religion. New Delhi: Atlantic, 2009.
Assessment
Continuous assessment 40% credit: End-Semester Exam 60% credit.
Department of English
University of Hyderabad
Ph. D English: Semester I, September –November 2016
Author Course: Bengali Dalit Literature in Translation
Student: Asima Baral
2 Credits
The course will have a first-hand reading on a few literary texts to
contextualize in larger picture of Dalit Literature. The available
texts will be examined to utilize for the project. Tentative titles
are as follows:
Singh, Sankar Prasad and Indranil Acharya. Eds. Survival and
other Stories: Bangla Dalit Fiction in
Translation. Acharya. New Delhi: OrientBlackswan, 2012.
Biswas, Manohar Mouli. Surviving in My World: Growing Up in
Bengal. Trans. Angana Dutta and
Jaydeep Sarangi. Kolkata: Samya, 2015.
More texts will be added in the due course.
The internal assessment will be for 40% and an end semester exam for
60%.
Suggested Reading:
Limbale, Shara Kumar. Towards an Asethetic of Dalit Literature. New
Deli: Orient Longman, 2004.
Dangle, Arjun. Ed. Poinsoned Bread. New Delhi: 2009.
Ravikumar and R. Azhagarasan. Eds. The Oxford India Anthology of Tamil
Dalit Writing. New Delhi: OUP,
2012.
Dasan, M. and et al. The Oxford India Anthology of Malayalam Dalit
Writing. New Delhi: OUP, 2012.
Department of English
University of Hyderabad
Ph. D English
Semester – I, August – November 2016
4 credits
Student: Asima Baral
B. Krishnaiah
Wednesday 09-11
Tentative Title: ‘Introduction to Dalit Literature’
This course intends to provide the important features and genres
of Dalit Literature. It answers the questions such as Who are Dalits
in India? How they entered the domain of literary writing? What are
the movements that influenced Dalit Writers significantly? What are
the concerns they choose for their writing? It foregrounds the
questions of untouchability, discrimination, oppression, atrocities,
exploitation, gender discrimination, etc. of the Dalits in India. It
also focuses on the protest/rebellious voice of the Dalit writers who
condemn the inhuman treatment is meted out to the Dalits in Indian
society.
Background Study:
“Introduction: Dalit Literature Past, Present and Future.” Arjun
Dangle Ed. Poisoned Bread: Translations from Modern Marathi Dalit
Literature. Hyderabad: Orient Longman. 1994.
Dasan, M. “Dalit Movements and Literature in Post-
Ambedkar Era: Emerging Issues and
Challenges.” Dalit Movements and Literature: Emerging Issues
and Challenges. Ed. B. Krishnaiah.
New Delhi: Prestige Publishers International, 2011.
Autobiography
Limbale, Sharan Kumar. The Outcaste (Akkarmashi). Translated from
Marathi by Santosh Bhoomkar. New Delhi: Oxford University Press,
2003.
Bama. Karukku. New Delhi: OUP, 2012.
Poetry
Dhasal, Namdeo. ‘Hunger,’ ‘Ode to Dr. Ambedkar: 1978’ (Equality for
all or Death to India)” Namdeo Dhasal: Poet of the Underworld.
(Poems 1972-2006). Selected,, introduced and translated by Dilip
Chitre. Chennai: Navayana Publishers, 2007.
Sikhamani. ‘Steel Nibs are Sprouting…’ Translated from Telugu by
Kiranmayi Indraganti. Steel Nibs are Sprouting: New Dalit Writing
from South India Dossier – II. Ed. By K.Satyanarayana and Susie
Tharu. Noida: Harper Collins, 2013.
Hanumanthaiah, N.K. ‘Untouchable! Yes, I Am.’ Translated from Kannada
by Ankur Betageri. Steel Nibs are Sprouting: New Dalit Writing from
South India Dossier – II. Ed., by K. Satyanarayana and Susie Tharu.
Noida: Harper Collins, 2013.
Swarupa Rani, Challapalli. “Water.” The Exercise of Freedom. Ed.
Satyanarayana, K and Susie Tharu New Delhi: Navayana, 2013.
Fiction
Sivakami. The Grip of Change. Translated from Tamil by the author.
Chennai: Orient Blackswan, 2009.
Gunasekaran, K. A. The Scar. Translated from Tamil by V.
Kadambari. New Delhi: Orient Blackswan, 2009.
Drama
Gunasekaran, K.A. Touch. Translated from Tamil by Ravi Shankar. The
Oxford India Anthology of Tamil Dalit Writing. Ed. by Ravi Kumar
and Azhagarasan. New Delhi: OUP, 2016.
Criticism
Ambedkar, B. R. Annihilation of Caste. (1936). New Delhi: Critical
Quest, 2007.
Limbale, Sharankumar. Towards an Aesthetics of Dalit Literature:
History Controversies and Considerations. Translated from
Marathi by Alok Mukherjee. New Dalhi: Orient Black Swan, 2010.
Suggested Reading:
Satyanarayana, K and Susie Tharu Ed. The Exercise of Freedom. New
Delhi: Navayana, 2013.
Nimbalkar, Waman: Dalit Literature: Nature and Role. Nagpur: Prabodhan
Prakashan, 2006.
Aloysius, G. Periyar on Islam. New Delhi: Critical Quest, 2004.
Bandyopadhyay, Sekhar. The Namasudra Movement. New Delhi: Critical
Quest, 2005.
Rajah, M.C. The Opperessed Hindus. (2005). New Delhi: Critical Quest,
1925.
Teltumbde, Anand et al. Eds. Hindutva and Dalits: Perspectives for
Understanding Communal Praxis.
Kolkatta: Samya, 2005.
Manohar, D. Murali, ed. Dalits and Religion. New Delhi: Atlantic,
2009.
Assessment
Continuous assessment 40% credit: End-Semester Exam 60% credit.
Between Law and Literature
PhD Supervisor: Siddharth Satpathy
Boniface Kamei, Semester II
Credit: 2
Hours: Thursday 9-11
This course intends to offer training in a well-established
interdisciplinary field that studies the relationship between Law
and Literature. A tentative reading list is attached. There will
be three internal assignments followed by a final examination at
the end of the semester. Instructor retains the right to bring in
alterations as and when necessary.
1. Peter Brooks and Paul Gewirtz, Law’s Stories: Narrative and
Rhetoric in the Law, Yale U P, 1996
2. Richard Posner, Law and Literature: A Misunderstood Relation,
Harvard U P, 1998
3. Richard H Weisberg, Poethics and Other Strategies of Law and
Literature, Columbia U P, 1992.
4. James Boyd White, The Legal Imagination, University of Chicago
Press, 1985
5. Kieran Dolin, A Critical Introduction to Law and Literature,
Cambridge U P 2011
6. Austin Sarat et al, Ed., Law and the Humanities: An
Introduction, Cambridge U P, 2009
7. Lewis H LaRue, Constituional Law as Fiction: Narrative in the
Rhetoric of Authority, Penn State University Press, 1995
8. Guyora Binder and Robert Weisberg, Literary Criticisms of Law,
Princeton U P, 2000
Victorian Literature and the Law I
PhD Supervisor: Siddharth Satpathy
Boniface Kamei, Semester II
Credit: 4
Wednesday 2-4
Thursday 11-1
This course, first of a two part series, intends to offer
training in Victorian literature. It lends particular emphasis to
the issues of law and legal culture. A tentative reading list is
attached. There will be three internal assignments followed by a
final examination at the end of the semester. Instructor retains
the right to bring in alterations as and when necessary.
Victorian Novel and Law
1. Charles Dickens, Bleak House (1853)
2. Anthony Trollope, Orley Farm (1861)
3. Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1892)
Victorian Poetry, Criticism and Law (selections)
1. Robert Browning, The Ring and the Book (1869)
2. Alfred Tennyson, The Princess, The Idylls of the King, The
Higher Pantheism, The Foresters, Harold, Akbar’s Dream, Locksley
Hall, Aylmer’s Field, AEnone, Hands All Round, Queen Mary.
3. W. Bagehot on the Idylls of the King (1859); W. E. Gladstone
on the Idylls of the King (1859) W. Bagehot on Enoch Arden
(1864); E. Dowden on Tennyson as the Poet of Law (1878) in John D
Jump Ed., Lord Alfred Tennyson: The Critical Heritage, Routledge,
2007
4. Walter Bagehot on The Ring and the Book (1869) etc. Boyd
Litzinger Ed., The Critical Heritage: Robert Browning, Routledge,
2005.
Secondary Readings
1. Ayelet Ben Yishai, Common Precedents: The Presentness of the
Past in Victorian Law and Fiction, Oxford U P, 2013
2. Jan Melissa Schramm, Testimony and Advocacy in the Victorian
Law, Literature and Theology, Cambridge U P, 2000
3. Lisa Rodensky, The Crime in Mind: Criminal Responsibility and
the Victorian Novel Oxford U P, 2003
4. Jonathan Grossman, The Art of Alibi: English Law Courts and
the Novel, Johns Hopkins U P, 2002
5. Kieran Dolin, Fiction and the Law: Legal Discourse in
Victorian and Modernist Literature, Cambridge U P, 1999
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
The University of Hyderabad
CRITICAL APPROACHES
M. Phil. / Ph. D. (Semester I) July—December 2016
(Instructor: K. Narayana Chandran, Room 9, English Department)
Texts for Presentation/ Discussion through Weekly Meetings
____________
Jacques Derrida, “The time of a thesis: punctuations.” Philosophy in
France Today.
Ed. Alan Montefiore. Cambridge UP. 1983.
Cornel West, “The New Cultural Politics of Difference.” Out There:
Marginalization and Contemporary Cultures.
Ed. R. Fergusson, M. Gever, T. T. Minh-ha and Cornel
West. New Museum of Contemporary Art, 1990.
Jamaica Kincaid, “In History.” Callaloo. 24.2 (Spring 2001).620-
626.
Audre Lorde, “Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining
Difference.” Ibid.
Terry Eagleton, “The End of English.” The Eagleton Reader. Wiley,
1997.
Raymond Williams, “Film and the Cultural Tradition.” Cinema Journal,
52.3 (Spring 2013):19-24.
_________, “Introduction.” Keywords. Penguin, 1976.
George Steiner, “‘Critic’/ ‘Reader.’ George Steiner: A Reader.
Penguin, 1984.
Edward Said, “The Politics of Knowledge.” Raritan 1 (Summer 1991).
18-31.
Lucé Irigaray, “A Chance to Live.” Thinking the Difference. Trans.
Karin Montin. Athlone Press, 1994.
Gayatri C. Spivak, “Explanation and Culture: Marginalia.” In Other
Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics.
Routledge, 2006.
A.K. Ramanujan, “Is there an Indian way of thinking? An Informal
Essay.” Contributions to Indian Sociology.
23. 1 (1989). 41-58.
Salman Rushdie, “Step Across This Line.” The Tanner Lectures on
Human Values, 2002.
Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari,”What is a Minor Literature?”
Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature.
U Minnesota P. 1986.
Pierre Bourdieu, “The Metamorphosis of Tastes;” “The Linguistic
Market.” Sociology in Question. Sage, 1993.
Leslie Fiedler, “Giving the Devil His Due.” The Journal of Popular
Culture. 12. 2 (Fall 1978). 197-207.
Margaret Atwood, “Communion: Nobody to Nobody: The eternal triangle:
the writer, the reader, and the book
as go-
between.” Negotiating with the Dead. Cambridge UP, 2002.
Michel Foucault, Abnormal: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1974-
1975. Selections.
Trans. Graham Burchell. Verso, 2003.
Partha Chatterjee, “Talking about Modernity in Two Different
Languages.” A Possible India. OUP, 1997.
Additional texts
Harold Pinter, Mountain Language, One for the Road
Adrienne Rich, Selections from her Poetry
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 2009 lecture. www .ted.com/talks/lang/
en/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_ story.html
Nuruddin Farah, Maps
Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye, Power Politics
Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
Derek Walcott, Selections from Poetry and Prose
David Malouf, An Imaginary Life
On Modernity: Power, Territory and Narrative
PhD Supervisor: Siddharth Satpathy
Hamari Jamatia, Semester III
Hours: Wednesday, 9-1
This course will offer a reading of modernity, both colonial and
postcolonial. It lends particular emphasis to the issues of ‘power’,
‘territory’ and ‘narrative’. A tentative reading list is attached.
Instructor retains the right to bring in alterations as and when it
is necessary. There will be three internal assignments followed by a
final examination at the end of the semester.
The Work of the Narrative (selections)
1. Rene Girard, Mimesis and Theory: Essays on Literature and Criticism, 1
2005 (2011)
2. Alastair Fowler, Kinds of Literature (1986)
3. Fredrick Jameson, The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially
Symbolic Act (1982)
4. Mikhail Bakhtin, The Dialogic Imagination (1975)
5. Gerard Genette, The Narrative Discourse (1983)
6. Rick Altman, A Theory of Narrative (2008)
7. Roland Barthes, Image Music and Text (1978)
8. Franco Moretti, Signs Taken for Wonders (1988)
Modern Forms of Power (selections)
1. Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks (1929-1935)
2. Michel Foucault, Security, Territory, Population (2009)
3. Louis Althusser, Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses
(1970)
4. Giorgio Agamben, The Kingdom and the Glory (2011)
Postcolonial Critique (selections)
1. Edward Said, Orientalism (1978)
2. Homi Bhabha, The Location of Culture (1991)
3. Gayatri Spivak, A Critique of Postcolonial Reason (1999)
4. Partha Chatterjee, Nation and Its Fragments (1992)
5. Dipesh Chakrabarty, Provincializing Europe (2000)
Territory and Criticism (selections)
1. Bertrand Westphal, Geocriticism: Real and Fictional Spaces (2011)
2. Dennis Cosgrove, Geography and Vision: Seeing, Imagining and Represent
the World (2008)
3. Anne Godlewska and Neil Smith, Geography and Empire (1994)
4. H. Blais, How Empires Make Territory (2016)
5. John Thieme, Postcolonial Literary Geographies (2016)
6. Emmanuelle Perlado, Literature and Geography (2016)
Modernity and the North East (selections)
1. Sajal Nag, Contesting Marginality (2002)
2. Preeti Gill, The Peripheral Centre (2010)
3. Indrani Chatterjee, Forgotten Friends: Monks, Marriages and Memories o
Northeast India (2013)
4. Sanjoy Hazarika, Strangers of the Mist: Tales of War and Peace
from India's Northeast (1994)
5. Samir Kumar Das, Blisters on their Feet (2008)
6. Andrew J May, Welsh Missionaries and British Imperialism (2016)
7. Udayon Misra, India’s North-East (2014)
8. Subir Bhaumik, Troubled Peripheries (2009)
9. Prasenjit Biswas, Ethnic Life Worlds in North East India (2009)
10. Sukalpa Bhattacharjee, Society, Representation and Textuality:
The Critical Interface (2013)
11. Sajal Nag, The Uprising (2016)
12. Ranju Bezbaruah, North East India; Interpreting the Sources of
its History (2008)
13. Kamal Ramprit Dikshit, Northeast India: Land People and Economy
(2013)
14. Gunnel Cederlof, Founding an Empire on Indian North Eastern
Frontiers (2014)
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
THE UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD
Course: Reading Carol Ann Duffy
PhD Semester III, July 2016
Instructor: Anna Kurian
Monica Kanga
Credits: 4
Carol Ann Duffy, poet laureate of the United Kingdom is seen as an
accessible poet, responsible for making poetry appealing to the person
in the street. This course will survey Carol Ann Duffy’s poetry paying
particular attention to both form and content. Thus while the themes
of Duffy’s poetry (childhood, gender and sexuality, memory and
identity, among others) will be focused upon the scholar will also
study the varied forms used by Duffy as well as her linguistic
innovations and usages. Duffy’s poetry for children and her plays are
not the subject of study within this course, and hence are not
included in the lists of texts.
Primary Texts:
Duffy, Carol Ann. Standing Female Nude. London: Anvil, 1985. Print.
…, Selling Manhattan. London: Anvil, 1987. Print.
…, The Other Country. London: Picador, 1990. Print.
…, Mean Time. London: Picador, 1993. Print.
…, The World’s Wife. London: Picador Classic, 1999. Print.
…, Feminine Gospel. London: Picador, 2002. Print.
…, Rapture. New York: Faber and Faber, 2005. Print.
…, The Bees. New York: Faber and Faber, 2013. Print.
Secondary Texts
Rees-Jones, Deryn. Carol Ann Duffy. Plymouth: Northcote House
Publishers Ltd, 1999. Print.
Michelis, Angelica and Antony Roeland, eds. The Poetry of Carol Ann
Duffy: ‘Choosing
Tough Words.’ Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009. Print.
Assessment:
The 40% internal assessment will be based on take home assignments and
class work. At the end of the semester the student will take an
examination for the remaining 60%.
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
THE UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD
Course: British Women Poets
PhD Semester III, July 2016
Instructor: Anna Kurian
Monica Kanga
Credits: 4
English Literature has a long tradition of women writers from Margery
Kempe and Julian of Norwich in Middle English through poets such as
Mary Sidney, Mary Wroth, Aemilia Lanyer and others in Renaissance
England to novelists and poets such as the Bronte Sisters and
Christina Rossetti in the nineteenth century to the poet laureate of
the UK today, Carol Ann Duffy. This introductory course will sample
the major women poets in English Literature, enabling the student to
see the traditions to which Duffy belongs. Thematic concerns which
occur repeatedly and questions of voice and tone will be addressed in
this survey course.
Primary Texts
The poetry will be drawn primarily from the selections available in
the six volume Norton Anthology of English Literature.
Greenblatt, Stephen and & M. H. Abrams. Editors. The Norton Anthology
of English Literature. Norton, 2006.
Secondary texts
Backscheider. Paula R. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their
Poetry: Inventing Agency, Inventing Genre. Johns Hopkins University
Press, 2007.
Behrendt, Stephen C. British Women Poets and the Romantic Writing
Community. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
Chapman, Alison. Victorian Women Poets. D S Brewer, 2003
Dowson, Jane. The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century British and
Irish Women's Poetry. Cambridge UP, 2011.
McGrath, Lynette. Subjectivity and Women's Poetry in Early Modern
England: Why on the Ridge Should She Desire to Go? Ashgate, 2002.
Additional secondary texts, especially journal essays on specific
poets, will be added during the course.
Assessment:
The 40% internal assessment will be based on take home assignments and
class work. At the end of the semester the student will take an
examination for the remaining 60%.
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
THE UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD
Ph. D 1st Semester July – November 2016
Indian Diasporic Novel
Instructor: Sireesha Telugu
Credits: 2
Rameesa P.M
A number of Indian writers have emerged on the global literary
scene since the end of the colonial era offering a substantial
contribution to world literature. Many of the writers featured
in this course have had a significant impact in places like the
United States, Canada and England, where they have won prizes
and earned recognition. But what is Indian diasporic literature,
and what does it mean to write as a diaspora from that complex
location? This course will therefore explore more on the idea
of migration and identity creation through a literary lens. It
proposes to look at the literary representation of these
diasporic writers who take different positions and deploy
generic conventions when it comes to the discourses of their
diasporic experiences and politics of identity.
Core Texts:
1. Jhumpa Lahiri. Namesake. Mariner Books,2004
2. Salman Rushdie. Midnight’s Children. RHUK, 2013
3. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. Oleander Girl. Simon and
Schuster, 2014
4. Bharati Mukherjee. Jasmine. Perseus Books Group, 1999.
5. Rohinton Mistry. Such a Long Journey. Faber and Faber, 2008
Suggested Readings:
1. Lavina Dhingra Shankar and Rajini Srikanth. A Part yet
Apart. 1998
2. Maira and Rajini Srikanth. Contours of the Heart: South
Asians Map North America. 1998
3. Bhabha, Homi. “Cultures In-Between”. Questions of Cultural
Identity. Ed. Stuart Hall and Paul du Gay. Sage Publication
Ltd, 1996
4. Hall, Stuart. “Cultural Identity and Diaspora”. Theorizing
Diaspora: A reader. Ed. Jana Evans Brazeil and Anita
Mannur. Blackwell Publishing Limited, 2003
This is an interactive course that concentrates on the novels
with a supplementary reading of Indian diasporic contexts. 40%
is allotted for internal assessment and 60% for the semester end
examination. Internal Assessment is in the form of class tests
and take home assignments.
* Based on the discussions, the Instructor might have the
liberality to change the texts during the course of time.
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
THE UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD
Ph. D 1st Semester July – November 2016
English in India: Development of Indian English Literature
Instructor: Sireesha Telugu
Credits: 4
Rameesa P.M
This course introduces the major movements and developments of
India and its influence on Indian writers writing in English
through a detailed study of specific literary works. It focuses
specifically at the changes in the development of Indian English
literature from the early prose to the recent twitter fiction.
It will further explore a detailed study of different forms of
literature evolved during the course of its journey. An attempt
would be made to tackle with the issues of nation, gender,
class, caste and identity which are mirrored in the literatures
produced by the writers living in this country and as well as
the writers in diaspora.
Fiction
Raja Rao. Kanthapura. Oxford University Press, 1989
Anita Desai. Bye-Bye Blackbird. Orient Paperbacks, 2005
Arundati Roy. The God of Small Things. Penguin India, 2002
Short Fiction (Selections From)
R.K.Narayan. Malgudi Days. Penguin Classics, 2006
Ruskin Bond. The Night Train at Deoli and Other Stories.
Penguin, 2016
Jhumpa Lahiri. Interpreter of Maladies. Harper Collins,
1999
Poetry (Selections From)
Toru Dutt. Early Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology by
Eunice De Souza. Oxford University Press, 2010
Rabindranath Tagore. Gitanjali. McMillan, 1995
Nissim Ezekiel. Collected Poems. Oxford University Press,
1989
Prose (Selections From)
Raja Ram Mohan Roy. Essential Writings of Raja Ramomohan
Ray. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999
Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi: ‘Hind Swaraj’ and Other Writings
edited by Anthony J. Parel, Cambridge University Press,
1997
Salman Rushdie. “Selections From” Imaginary Homelands
Essays and Criticism 1981-1991. Penguin Books, 1992
Drama
Girish Karnad. Nagamandala. Oxford University Press, 1990
Uma Parameswaran. Sons Must Die and Other Plays. Prestige,
1998
Popular Literature
Gurinder Chadha. Bend It Like Beckham. 2002 (Film)
Srividya Natarajan, S. Anand with art by Subhash and
Durgabai Vyam. Bhimayana: Experiences of Untouchability.
Navayana Publishers, 2011 (Graphic Novel)
Vaishali. www.holycowvegan.net 2007 (Food Blog)
Chindu Sreedharan. Epic Retold. Harper Collins India, 2015
(Twitter Fiction)
Reading List
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra. Ed. A Concise History of Indian
Literature in English. Permanent Black, 2008
M.K.Naik. A History of Indian English Literature. Sahitya
Akademi, 2009
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra. An Illustrated History of Indian
Literature in English. Orient Black Swan, 2007
K.R.Srinivas Iyengar. Indian Writing in English. Sterling
Publishers, 2012
This is an interactive course and the students are expected to
read the texts and participate in active discussions. The mode
of internal assessment is written consisting of FOUR Assignments
out of which the best TWO would be considered for the final
internal marks.
Assessment:
40% is allotted for continuous internal assessment
60% for the semester end examination.
*The instructor reserves the right to change or add texts during
the course.
Course No.
Tentative Course Outline
Department of English
University of Hyderabad
INTRODUCTION TO NATIONALISM
PhD
(Taught Course)
Instructor: Girish D. Pawar
Student: Md. Samsujjaman
Credits: 2
The present course is designed to study the idea of ‘nation’ and
‘nation building’ in select Indian autobiographies. Theories
like nationalism, post-colonialism and neo-colonialism will be
the major theoretical frameworks for the course. The student/s
will be encouraged to critically analyze and observe the
evolution of the idea of ‘nation’ in Indian context.
Suggested Reading:
Aquil, Raziuddin and Partha Chatterjee. History in the
Vernacular. New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2010.
Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the
Origin and Spread of Nationalism. London: Verso, 1983.
Fanon, Franz. The Wretched of the Earth. New York: Grove Press,
1963.
Grosby, Steven. Nationalism: A Very Short Introduction. New
York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Kumar, Raj. Dalit Personal Narratives: Reading Caste, Nation,
and Identity. New Delhi: Orient Blackswan, 2011.
Manent, Pierre. “What is a Nation”. The Intercollegiate Review-
Fall, 2007.
Misra, Prof. Surya Narayan. “Nehru and Nation-Building in
India”. Odisha Review. November, 2013.
Pandey, Gyanendra. Remembering Partition: Violence, Nationalism
and History in India (Contemporary South Asia). London:
Cambridge University Press, 2001. Print.
Singh,Mahavir. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad: Profile of a
Nationalist. New Delhi: Anamika Pub & Distributors, 2003. Print.
Taylor, Charles. Modern Social Imaginaries. Durham: Duke UP,
2004. Print.
Course No.
Tentative Course Outline
Department of English
University of Hyderabad
INTRODUCTION TO LIFE WRITING:
AUTOBIOGRAPHY, BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR WRITING
PhD
(Taught Course)
Instructor: Girish D. Pawar
Student: Md. Samsujjaman
Credits: 4
This course is designed to study autobiography, biography and memoir
writings. The student/s will be encouraged to critically analyze, read
and discuss major traits like history of life writings, real vs.
fiction, characterization, narrative structure, editing, printing,
publishing and marketing, etc.
Suggested Reading:
Āzād, Abūlkalām. India Wins Freedom. Bombay: Orient Longmans,
1959.
Abbas, K.A. I Am Not An Island: An Experiment In Autobiography. New
Delhi: Vikas Publishing House, 1977.
Anderson, Linda. Autobiography. London: Routledge, 2001.
Arnold, David, and Stuart H. Blackburn. Telling Lives in India:
Biography, Autobiography, and Life History. Bloomington: Indiana UP,
2004.
Douglas, Ian Henderson. Abul Kalam Azad: An Intellectual and Religious
Biography. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 1988.
Eakin, P.J. Fictions in Autobiography: Studies in the Art of Self-
Invention. New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
Engineer, Asghar Ali. A Living Faith: My Quest for Peace, Harmony and
Social Change. New Delhi: Orient Blackswan, 2012.
Hamied, Khwaja Abdul. K.A. Hamied: An Autobiography; a Life to
Remember. Bombay: Lalvani Pub. House, 1972.
Khan, Khan Abdul Ghaffar. My life and struggle: Autobiography of
Badshah Khan. Translated by Helen Bouman. New Delhi: Hind Pocket
Books, 1969.
Sharma, Jai Narain. The Political Thought of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad.
New Delhi: Concept Publishing Company, 2010.
Smith, Sidonie, and Julia Watson. Reading Autobiography: A Guide for
Interpreting Life Narratives. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota, 2010.
NOTE:
Primary texts will be decided by the course instructor. Students
are most welcome for suggestions.
A supplementary reading list will be supplied during the course.
40% Marks- Continuous Assessment
60% Marks – End-of-Semester Examination
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Vinita Teresa
4 credits
Instructor: Arvind Susarla (CRS)
RS703 "Reading the City"
Department of English
Ph. D Course, Jan.-March 2016
Vinita Teresa
Representations of Waste in Literature
4 credits
[Instructor: Pramod K. Nayar]
Monday: 11.30 AM - 1.30 PM
Wednesday 11.30 AM - 1.30 PM
This course reads the representation of waste, garbage and trash in
a variety of literary texts.
It examines the rise of ‘trash aesthetics’ in such representations
as a preliminary to the ethics of trash. At this point, it
speculates that such aesthetics has the following components:
materiality, affect, the social/sociality. It is possible that this
course could become the core of a chapter on trash aesthetics
It addresses the following questions emerging from the literary
texts:
How does excess become effluence in these representations, if
at all?
Is trash aesthetics an aesthetics of materiality - of objects
and processes that ‘produce’ trash?
Is such an aesthetics also informed by social markers, of
class, caste, race and gender?
What are the aesthetics of recycling?
Is trash aesthetics an eco-aesthetics?
What are the affective components – disgust, revulsion, horror
– that accompany the aesthetics in these
texts/representations?
Primary Texts: [More to be added in consultation with the student]
AR Ammons, Garbage
Don DeLillo, Underworld
Mulk Raj Anand, Untouchable
Secondary Texts
Susan S. Morrison. The Literature of Waste: Material Ecopoetics
and Ethical Matter.
Julia Kristeva. The Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection.
WI Miller. The Anatomy of Disgust.
Evaluation: 40 % continuous internal assessment
60% end-of-semester examinations
