Lectures

Reading Partition Literature | Avishek Parui | August 29, 2022

Reading the Indian Essay in English | Subarno Chattarji | August 29, 2022

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Reading the Indian Novel in English | Tabish Khair | August 29, 2022

Reading Indian Poetry in English | Graziano Krätli

| August 29, 2022

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English and Northeast Indian Literature | Nandana Dutta | September 1, 2022

Situating IWE (in the age of) Postcolonial and World Literatures | Pramod K. Nayar | September 2, 2022

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Workshop Readings

Reading Partition Literature (Readings suggested by Dr. Avishek Parui, IIT Madras)

  1. Parui, Avishek, “Culture, History, Memory, and Forgetting.” Culture and the Literary: Matter, Metaphor, Memory, Rowman and Littlefield, 2022, pp. 112-123.
  2. Parui, Avishek, “Memory, nation and the crisis of location in Saadat Hasan Manto’s ‘Toba Tek Singh,’” Short Fiction in Theory & Practice, Volume 5 Numbers 1 & 2, 2015, doi: 10.1386/fict.5.1-2.57_1

Reading the Indian Novel in English (Readings suggested by Professor Tabish Khair, Aarhus University)

  1. Hossain, Attia. Phoenix Fled, Attila Hosain, Virago Modern Classics, 1988, pp. 9-15.
  2. Khair, Tabish. “The Scam,” Delhi Noir, ed. Hirsh Sawhney, Akashic Books, 2009, pp. 235-45. Kipling, Rudyard. “Mark of the Beast,” Late Victorian Gothic Tales, Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. 84-95.
  3. Padmanabhan, Manjula, “Kleptomania,” Kleptomania: Ten Stories, Penguin, pp. 4-28.
  4. Rushdie Salman, “Imaginary Homelands,” Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991, Granta Books, 1991, pp. 9-21.

Reading the Indian Essay in English (Readings suggested by Professor Subarno Chattarji, University of Delhi)

  1. Ghosh, Amitav, “The march of the novel through history: the testimony of my grandfather’s bookcase,” The Imam and the Indian: Prose Pieces (Ravi Dayal, Permanent Black, 2002)
  2. Naipaul, V.S., “Postscript: Our universal civilization,” The Writer and the World: Essays (Picador, 2002)
  3. Padmanabhan, Manjula, “Dancing with demons,” Adapted from the keynote address at the Himal Southasian Cartoon Congress, 14 November 2008, Kathmandu
  4. Ramanujan, A. K., “Is there an Indian way of thinking? An informal essay,” India through Hindu categories, ed. McKim Marriott (Sage 1990)

Reading Indian Poetry in English (Readings suggested by Graziano Krätli)

I. Primary Sources

  1. Toru Dutt. “Sonnet.—The Broken Bell”. From A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields. Bhowanipore, West Bengal: B.M. Bose, 1876; London: Kegan Paul & Co., 1880. “The Broken Bell” is a translation of Charles Baudelaire’s “La Cloche fêlée” (Fleurs du mal, 1857).
  2. Narendra K. Sethi. “The Me”. From The World Is Split. Calcutta: Writers Workshop, 1961.
  3. Gopal Honnalgere. “Drawing Room”. From The Collected Poems of Gopal Honnalgere. Edited by K.A. Jayaseelan. Mumbai: Poetrywala, 2020. [Originally published in Zen Tree and the Wild Innocents, Cuttack, Odisha: Gray Book Publications, 1973].
  4. Agha Shahid Ali, “It Is Spring Again”. In Faiz Ahmed Faiz, The Rebel’s Silhouette (Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 1995 [1991]), 89.
  5. Daljit Nagra. From Ramayana: A Retelling (London: Faber and Faber, 2013), 45.
  6. Arvind Krishna Mehrotra. “Turning to the Drought”, by Vinod Kumar Shukla. From Collected Poems 1969-2014 (Gurgaon, Haryana: Penguin Books India, 2014), 256.
  7. Bherwani, Bhisham. “Juvenal Satires VIII.39-55”. From The Circling Canopy (Ithaca, New York: Cayuga Lake Books, 2014), 35.
  8. Karthika Naïr. From Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata (Brooklyn, New York: Archipelago Books, 2019 [HarperCollins India, 2015]), 71.
  9. Sharmistha Mohanty. From The Gods Came Afterwards. New Delhi: Speaking Tiger, 2019.
  10. Arundhathi Subramaniam. “If It Must Be Now”. From Love Without a Story. Hexham, Northumberland: Bloodaxe Books, 2020.

II. Secondary Sources

  1. Terry Eagleton, “Poetry and Prose” and “Poetic Language,” from How to Read a Poem (Oxford; Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing, 2007), 25-28; 41-47.
  2. Moniza Alvi, “Map of India,” in Ruth Padel, 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem (London: Vintage Books, 2004), 208-211. (Original edition: Chatto & Windus, 2002).
  3. Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, “What Is an Indian Poem?” from Partial Recall: Essays on Literature and Literary History (Ranikhet, Uttarakhand: Permanent Black, 2012), 272-275.

III. How to Read a Poem: Some Recent Titles

  1. Burt, Stephanie. Don’t Read Poetry: A Book about How to Read Poems. Basic Books, 2019.
  2. Eagleton, Terry. How to Read a Poem. Blackwell, 2007. Ford, Thomas H. How to Read a Poem: Seven Steps. Routledge, 2021.
  3. Hirsch, Edward. How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry. Harcourt, 1999.
  4. Hodgson, Andrew. The Cambridge Guide to Reading Poetry. Cambridge University Press, 2022.
  5. Lennard, John. The Poetry Handbook: A Guide to Reading Poetry for Pleasure and Practical Criticism. Second edition. Oxford University Press, 2005 [1996].
  6. Roberts, Philip Davies. How Poetry Works: The Elements of English Poetry. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1991 [1986].
  7. Wainwright, Jeffrey. Poetry: The Basics. Routledge, 2011.

English and Northeast Indian Literature (Readings suggested by Professor Nandana Dutta, Guwahati University)

Poems (From the Anthology of Contemporary Poetry from the Northeast, Eds. Robin S. Ngangom and Kynpham Singh Nongkynrih, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, 2003)

  1. Stone People from Lungterok (Temsula Ao)
  2. The Conquest (Desmond L Kharmawphlang)
  3. At Nongkrem (Indari Syiem Wajiri)
  4. Domiasat (Paul Lyngdoh)

Short Stories

  1. The Pot Maker (Temsula Ao from These Hills Called Home)
  2. A Waterfall of Horses (Janice Pariat fromBoats on Land)

 Essay

The Phawar in Context: The Politics of Tradition and Continuity by Desmond Kharmawphlang (from Margaret Zama ed. Emerging Literatures from NE India)