B.A. Hons English – 4th Semester

Course Overview

DSC-10: American Literature

1. UNIT – I (15 hours)
2. Toni Morrison: Beloved
3. UNIT – II (15 hours)
4. 2. Kate Chopin: The Awakening
5. 3. Herman Melville: ‘Bartleby the scrivener’
6. UNIT – III (15 hours)
7. 4. Walt Whitman: (i) ‘O Captain, My Captain’ (ii) ‘Passage to India’(lines 1–68)
8. 5. Alexie Sherman Alexie: (i) ‘Crow Testament’ (ii) ‘Evolution’

DSC-11: Indian Writing in English

1. UNIT – I (15 hours)
2. Anita Desai: The Clear Light of the Day
3. UNIT – II (15 hours)
4. 2. H.L.V. Derozio: (i) ‘Freedom to the Slave’ (ii) ‘The Orphan Girl’
5. 3. Kamala Das: (i) ‘Introduction’ (ii) ‘My Grandmother’s House’
6. 4. Sarojini Naidu: (i) ‘An Indian Love Song’, (ii) ‘In Salutation to the Eternal Peace’
7. 5. Robin S. Ngangom: (i) ‘The Strange Affair of Robin S. Ngangom’ (ii) ‘A Poem for Mother’
8. UNIT – III (15 hours)
9. 6. Salman Rushdie: ‘The Free Radio’
10. 7. Shashi Deshpande: ‘The Intrusion’
11. 8. Padmanabhan, Manjula. ‘Stains’, Hot Death, Cold Soup: Twelve Short Stories. New Delhi: Kali for Women/Zubaan, 1996.

DSC-12: Indian Writing in English Translation

1. UNIT – I (15 hours)
2. Premchand ‘The Shroud’, Penguin Book of Classic Urdu Stories. ed. M. Assaduddin, New Delhi: Penguin/Viking, 2006.
3. Chugtai, Ismat. ‘The Quilt’, Lifting the Veil: Selected Writings of Ismat Chugtai. tr. M. Assaduddin. New Delhi: Penguin Books, 2009.
4. Senapati, Fakir Mohan. ‘Rebati’, Oriya Stories. ed. Vidya Das, tr. Kishori Charan Das, Delhi: Srishti Publishers, 2000.
5. UNIT – II (15 hours)
6. 4. Bharati, Dharamveer. Andha Yug. tr. Alok Bhalla, New Delhi: OUP, 2009.
7. 5. Tagore, Rabindranath. ‘Light, Oh Where is the Light?’ & ‘When My Play was with thee’, Gitanjali: A New Translation with an Introduction. trans. William Radice, New Delhi: Penguin India, 2011.
8. 6. Muktibodh, G.M. ‘The Void’ (tr. Vinay Dharwadker) & ‘So Very Far’, (tr. Tr. Vishnu Khare and Adil Jussawala), The Oxford Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry. ed. Vinay Dharwadker and A.K. Ramanujam, New Delhi: OUP, 2000.
9. UNIT – III (15 hours)
10. 7. Pritam, Amrita. ‘I say unto Waris Shah’ (tr. N.S. Tasneem), Modern Indian Literature: An Anthology, Plays and Prose, Surveys and Poems. ed. K.M. George, vol. 3, Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 1992.
11. 8. Singh, Thangjam Ibopishak. ‘Dali, Hussain, or Odour of Dream, Colour of Wind’ & ‘The Land of the Half-Humans’, The Anthology of Contemporary Poetry from the Northeast. tr. Robin S. Ngangom, NEHU: Shillong, 2003.
12. 9. Macwan, Joseph. The Stepchild. Trans. Rita Kothari, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2004.