COURSE LAYOUT
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 Mukherjees works - the genealogy of Indian novel - Indulekha - Rajmohans 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 - Midnights 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 fiction - Writings from the North East - Temsula Aos 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 fiction in English in the contemporary
Week 12: Other writings