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Paper Ge 10: Indian English Literatures Course Objectives: Swami and Friends

The course on Indian English Literature aims to introduce students to significant literary works and contextualize them within postcolonial discourse, colonialism, and globalization. It includes a diverse range of texts from authors like R. K. Narayan, Salman Rushdie, and Kamala Das, emphasizing critical thinking and textual understanding through discussions and writing assignments. The course is structured over 14 weeks, covering essential readings and concluding with lectures addressing course queries.

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Paper Ge 10: Indian English Literatures Course Objectives: Swami and Friends

The course on Indian English Literature aims to introduce students to significant literary works and contextualize them within postcolonial discourse, colonialism, and globalization. It includes a diverse range of texts from authors like R. K. Narayan, Salman Rushdie, and Kamala Das, emphasizing critical thinking and textual understanding through discussions and writing assignments. The course is structured over 14 weeks, covering essential readings and concluding with lectures addressing course queries.

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PAPER GE 10: INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURES

Course Objectives

Over the past two centuries, especially after the 1980s, Indian writing in English has emerged as
a major contribution to Indian as well as global literary production. A close analysis of some of
the major works of Indian writing in English is crucial in any exploration of modern Indian
subjectivities, histories and politics.

This course aims to


• introduce students to Indian English literature and its oeuvre through the selected literary
texts across genres;
• enable the students to place these texts within the discourse of postcoloniality and
understand Indian literary productions in English in relation to the hegemonic processes
of colonialism, neo-colonialism, nationalism and globalization; and
• allow the students to situate this corpus within its various historical and ideological
contexts and approach the study of Indian writing in English from the perspectives of
multiple Indian subjectivities.

Facilitating the Achievement of Course Learning Outcomes

Sl. Course Learning Outcomes Teaching and Assessment Tasks


No Learning Activity
1 Understanding concepts Interactive Reading material together in
discussions in small groups initiating
small groups in discussion topics participation in
Tutorial classes discussions
2 Expressing concepts How to think Writing essay length
through writing critically and write assignments
with clarity
3 Demonstrating conceptual Discussing exam Class tests
and textual understanding questions and
in tests and exams answering
techniques

Course Contents

Unit 1

R. K. Narayan, Swami and Friends


Unit 2

Firdaus Kanga, Trying to Grow

Unit 3

Mahesh Dattani, Tara

Unit 4

Shashi Deshpande, ‘The Intrusion’


Salman Rushdie, ‘The Courter’
Rohinton Mistry, ‘Swimming Lessons’
Vikram Chandra, ‘Dharma’

Unit 5

Kamala Das, ‘An Introduction’, ‘My Grandmother’s House’


Nissim Ezekiel, ‘Night of the Scorpion’, ‘Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa TS’
Arun Kolatkar, ‘The Bus’, ‘A Low Temple’
Vikram Seth, ‘The Crocodile and the Monkey’
Mamang Dai, ‘The Sorrow of Women’

Essential Readings

Note: This is a literature-based course, and students will be examined on all the prescribed
readingsin Units 1 through 5. Therefore, all those texts are to be considered essential reading.

Teaching Plan

Week 1: Introduction to the Paper: Indian Writing in English


Week 2: Unit 1 – Narayan, Swami and Friends
Week 3: Unit 1 contd
Week 4: Unit 1 contd
Week 5: Unit 2 – Kanga, Trying to Grow
Week 6: Unit 2 contd
Week 7: Unit 2 contd
Week 8: Unit 3 – Dattani,Tara
Week 9: Unit 3 contd
Week 10: Unit 4 – Deshpande, ‘The Intrusion’; Rushdie, ‘The Courter’
Week11: Unit 4 – Mistry, ‘SwimmingLessons’; Chandra, ‘Dharma’
Week 12: Unit 5 – Das,‘ An Introduction’,‘My Grandmother’s House’; Ezekiel ‘Night of the
Scorpion’, ‘Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa TS’
Week 13: Unit 5 – Kolatkar, ‘The Bus’, ‘A Low Temple’; Seth, ‘The Crocodile and the
Monkey’; Dai, ‘The Sorrow of Women’
Week 14: Concluding lectures and course queries

Keywords
Indian novel
Imagery in Indian poetry
Diaspora
Self and society

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