English & Indian-English Literature
From colonial curricula to postcolonial voice
This subject traces the entry of English literary study into India, the emergence of Indian writing in English, and the theoretical debates over language, nation, and representation that continue to shape literary criticism in South Asia.
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English Studies and the Colonial Classroom
How English literature became a instrument of colonial governance and cultural authority in nineteenth-century India, and how Indian readers reshaped it.
5 concepts · 4 sources · 3 exercises
- 02
The Indian English Novel: From Kanthapura to Midnight's Children
The formal and thematic evolution of the Indian English novel across independence, partition, and postmodern experimentation.
5 concepts · 5 sources · 3 exercises
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Postcolonial Theory and Indian Literary Criticism
Key theoretical frameworks—Orientalism, subalternity, hybridity—and how Indian critics have adapted and contested them.
5 concepts · 4 sources · 3 exercises
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Indian English Poetry and Drama
The lesser-studied traditions of Indian English poetry and theatre, from colonial-era verse to Girish Karnad's English translations.
5 concepts · 4 sources · 3 exercises
- 05
The British Literary Canon: Chaucer to Victorian Realism
The formation of the English canon from medieval narrative verse through Shakespearean drama, Romantic subjectivity, and Victorian social-realist fiction.
5 concepts · 5 sources · 2 exercises
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American Literature: Puritan Origins to Modernist Rupture
The distinct traditions of American literature—Puritan writing, transcendentalism, realism, and modernism—and their departure from British models.
5 concepts · 4 sources · 2 exercises
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Global Anglophone Literature and Literary Theory Schools
African, Caribbean, Irish, and Australian anglophone literatures alongside the major schools of literary theory that read them.
5 concepts · 5 sources · 3 exercises