6 B 14 ENG - INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH
MODULE
1 – INTRODUCTION
Introduction to the Course: an overview of the history of Indian
Writing in English, introducing the different phases in its evolution – British
Raj and the emergence of Indian writing in English, the National movement and its impacts, independence and post- independence periods.
TERMS:
1. Stereotypes
2. Binaries
3. Indian Writing in
English
4. Indo-Anglian
Writing
5. Anglo-Indian Writing
6. Common Wealth
MODULE
II – POETRY
SECTION A (SEMESTER EXAMINATION)
1. Aurobindo : A Dreamof Surreal Science (C D Narasimhaiah page 17)
2. Sarojini Naidu
:Village Song
3. Tagore: BreezyApril
4. Kamala Das
: Spoiling the Name (C D Narasimhaiah, 47)
5. Nissim Ezekiel : Good bye Party to Miss Pushpa T.S.
6. A. K. Ramanujan:
Extended Family
7. Eunice De Souza:
Marriages are Made
8. Jayantha
Mahapatra: Hunger
SECTION B (INTERNAL ASSESSMENT:
ASSIGNMENT AND VIVA)
(POEMS 1 TO 10 FROM Gokak, Vinayak Krishna (ed). The Golden Treasury of
Indo-
1. HENRY L DEROZIO: TO THE PUPILS OF THE HINDU COLLEGE
2. KASIPRASAD GHOSH: TO A YOUNG HINDU WIDOW
3. TORU DUTT: LAKSHMAN
4. HUR CHUNDER DUTT: INDIA
5. VIVEKANANDA: KALI THE MOTHER
6. P SESHADRI: THE TEACHER
7. ARMANDO MENEZES: CHAIRS
8. V K GOKAK: ENGLISH WORDS
9. H D SETHNA: THE DEAD STUDENT
11. DILIP CHITRE: FATHER RETURNING HOME (THE MYSTIC
DRUM)
12. EZEKIEL: JEWISH WEDDING IN BOMBAY (THE WONDERING
MINSTRELS- INTERNET)
13. KAMALA DAS: ANAMALAI POEMS
14. ARUN KOLATKAR: AN OLD WOMAN
15. SYED AMMANUDDDIN: DON’T CALL ME INDO-ANGLIAN
MODULE
III – SHORT FICTION - SECTION A (ONE PLUS ONE)
1. Raja Rao The Village of Kanthapura (first chapter – up to threw away
their foreign clothes because they were Gandhi’s men)
2. Mulk Raj Anand The Informer
3. Rohinton Mistry : Of White Hairs and Cricket
4. Anitha Desai : A Devoted Son
MODULE
IV – LONG FICTION (ONE HOUR)
1. R K Narayan : The Guide
MODULE III AND IV– SHORT AND LONG FICTION - SECTION B
(ASSIGNMENT AND VIVA)
1. SHORT STORIES AND NOVELS OF MULK RAJ ANAND, RAJA RAO
AND R K NARAYAN
2. ANITHA DESAI : FASTING, FEASTING
3. Arundhati Roy : God of Small Things
4. MANOHAR MALGONKAR: THE MAN WHO KILLED GANDHI
5. SALMAN RUSHDIE : MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN, SATANIC VERSES
6. VIKRAM SETH: : A SUITABLE BOY, THE GOLDEN GATE
7. JAISREE MISRA : ANCIENT PROMISES, AFTER,
8. MANJU KAPOOR : DIFFICULT DAUGHTERS
9. KIRAN DESAI : THE INHERITANCE OF LOSS, HULLABALOO IN
THE GUAVA ORCHARD
10. UPAMANYU CHATERJEE: ENGLISH, AUGUST: AN INDIAN
STORY, THE MAMMARIES OF THE
11. JHUMBA LAHIRI: THE INTERPRETER OF MALADIES
12. AMITAV GHOSH: THE CIRCLE OF REASON, THE HUNGRY TIDE
13. SHASHI THAROOR: THE GREAT INDIAN NOVEL
14. CHETAN BHAGAT ; 2 STATES, REVOLUTION 2020
MODULE
- V - DRAMA (ONE HOUR)
1. Girish Karnad : Naga-Mandala (OUP.1990)
2. Nabaneeta Dev Sen.: : Medea
why did Tagore choose the title "Breezy April " for his poem?
ReplyDeleteA SEA OF FOLIAGE GIRDS OUR GARDEN ROUND
ReplyDeleteToru Dutt (1856 – 1877)
A sea of foliage girds our garden round,
But not a sea of dull unvaried green,
Sharp contrasts of all colors here are seen;
The light-green graceful tamarinds abound
Amid the mango clumps of green profound,
And palms arise, like pillars gray, between;
And o'er the quiet pools the seemuls lean,
Red-red, and startling like a trumpet's sound.
But nothing can be lovelier than the ranges
Of bamboos to the eastward, when the moon
Looks through their gaps, and the white lotus changes
Into a cup of silver. One might swoon
Drunken with beauty then, or gaze and gaze
On a primeval Eden, in amaze.
Toru Dutt does not require an introduction. In the firmament of English Poetry in India, she shines ever bright and luminous like the Polar Star. Toru Dutt was born in Bengal, but her father wanted his daughter to have a western education, so her family moved to France. Virtually unknown during her brief life time, her work gave her some posthumous celebrity in Europe. Meaning of “a sea of foliage girds our garden round, but not a sea of dull unvaried green? Different foliage, from many different plants. Just one type of plant everywhere, would give the impression of ‘dull unvaried green’, but a mixture of plant indoors and textures would “a sea of foliage” the ocean is not just one color… being a mixture of shades and colors.
I think that is the analogy that this poem trying to make is different foliages, from many different plants.
Just one type of plant every where would give the impression of “dull univarred green” but a mixture of plant colors and textures would be “ a sea of foliage”. The ocean isn’t just one color…. Being a mixture of shades and colors, I think that’s the analogy that is trying to make. In her poem ‘ A Sea of Foliage’ Toru Dutt compares the greenery surrounding her family’s garden with the sea. She goes on to say that while the sea has an unchanging green color, her garden is filled with different and exciting shades of green, the light green of the tamarind trees, the deep green of the mango grove, the grey green of the stately palms. A contrast is found in the brilliant red of the flowers of the seemal free. Which takes one by surprise like the sudden shrill sound of the trumpet. She says that the loveliest however are the lines of bamboo trees and when the white lotus look like, a silver cup the scene is enchanting that the might almost faint intoxicated by its beauty or gaze in wonder at what looks like the Garden of Eden – the first garden created by God for Adam and Eve.
Submitted by
SALEENA K
VI SEMESTER
BA ENGLISH
ROLL NO: 18
REG NO: GM11AEGR18