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Indian Fiction in English

By Prof.Merin Simi Raj   |   IIT Madras

The course intends to provide a comprehensive understanding of ction written in English in India since its emergence in the 19th century and to
introduce the learners to the literary ground covered in major literary histories, anthologies and critical discussions from the 1960s onwards. Apart from
a chronological survey, the course will focus on the historical and literary origins of the genre, its political and economic underpinnings, the debates and
controversies within the eld and the crisis in contemporary literary studies. The objective of the course is also to expose the students to questions of
nation, secularism, caste, gender, region and identity inherent in the writings. To enable a more nuanced engagement selected novels will be read and
analysed within current critical frameworks such as postcolonialism, feminism, caste studies, historiography studies etc. the new trends in writing and
publishing are also discussed in order to give a perspective of the genre in the present century. The pedagogy will include lectures, discussions and
presentations by students. The locus of the course will be on peer learning and also on developing the skills for critical enquiry and academic research.
The students are expected to read the prescribed novels and critical material. 

INTENDED AUDIENCE: Students, general audience with interest in Fiction

PREREQUISITES:          NIL

Indian Fiction in English - Course Introduction

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SUMM ARY
Course Status : Upcoming
Course Type : Core
Duration : 12 weeks
Start Date : 29 Jul 2019
End Date : 18 Oct 2019
 Exam Date : 17 Nov 2019
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Category : Humanities and Social Sciences
Level : Postgraduate
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C O U R S E L AY O U T
Week 1: Introduction, background and literary history - From Srinivasa Iyengar, M.K.Naik and Arvind Krishna Mehrotra - Questions of language, legitimacy
and nationalism - Regional writing vs. writing in English 
Week 2 : Early novels of the 19th century - Discussions based on Meenakshi Mukherjee’s works - the genealogy of Indian novel - Indulekha - Rajmohan’s
Wife 
Week 3 : ‘Gandhi Novels’ of the 1930s-1940s and beyond - From Priyamvada Gopal and Rumina Sethi - Kanthapura - Waiting for the Mahatma 
Week 4: Novels of the 1950s and 1960s - dominant themes and traditions – Post-independence writing - Heat and Dust - The Strange Case of Billy
Biswas 
Week 5: Women and Indian Fiction in English - The question of gender, feminist concerns, the idea of ‘home’ - Cry, the Peacock - Nayantara Sehgal 
Week 6: Post-1980s and Rushdie: Writing the Postcolonial Nation - Midnight’s Children - The Shadow Lines 
Week 7: Post-1980s and Rushdie: Writing the Postcolonial Nation - Ice Candy Man - The Hungry Tide - Riot 
Week 8: The region vs. the nation in Indian Fiction in English - Bombay in IE ction - Writings from the North East - Temsula Ao’s short stories - “The
Remains of the Feast” by Gita Hariharan 
Week 9: Caste in Indian Fiction in English - Untouchable - The God of Small Things - A Fine Balance 
Week 10:The global market, Booker events and literary canon - The ‘Stefanian’ writers - Arvind Adiga and
                Kiran Desai 
Week 11: Indian ction in English in the contemporary
Week 12: ‘Other’ writings 

BOOKS AND REFERENCES

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INSTRUCTOR BIO

Dr.Merin Simi Raj teaches in the Dept.of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Madras.Her teaching and research interests include literary
historiography, Literary Criticism, Indian writing in English, Postcolonial literature and Narratives of marginality. 

C O U R S E C E RT I F I C AT E
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