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B.COM FIRST SEM-JULY-2024

B.COM THIRD SEM-JULY-2024

MODERN INDIAN WRITING IN TRANSLATION

Modern Indian Writing in Translation

Syllabus

Credits 4

L.T.P

3.1.0.   

Course Outcomes:

After completion of the course students will be able to:

C01     Comprehend the basic concepts of Indian literary tradition through the study of representative translated texts from diverse parts of India.

C02     Understand the polyphony of modern Indian writing in translation.

C03     Acquaint with the literary texts produced across Indian regional landscapes to seek similarities and differences in thematic and cultural perspectives.

C04     Interpret and analyze the multifaceted nature of cultural identities in the various Indian literatures through indigenous literary traditions.

C05     Critically analyze the regional and linguistic elements in the prescribed texts.

C06     Develop a basic perception about the difficulties, possibilities, and challenges in translating a text.

 

UNIT 1:

Premchand ‘The Shroud’, in Penguin Book of Classic Urdu  Stories, ed. M. Assaduddin (New Delhi:  Penguin/Viking, 2006).

Fakir Mohan Senapati ‘Rebati’, in Oriya Stories, ed. Vidya Das, tr. KishoriCharan Das (Delhi: Srishti Publishers, 2000). 

UNIT 2

Gurdial Singh ‘A Season of No Return’, in Earthy Tones, tr. Rana Nayar (Delhi: Fiction House, 2002). 

Sa’adat Hasan Manto, ‘Toba Tek Singh’, in Black Margins: Manto, tr. M. Asaduddin (New Delhi: Katha, 2003) pp. 212–20.

UNIT 3:

Rabindra Nath Tagore ‘Light, Oh Where is the Light?' in Gitanjali: A New Translation with an Introduction by William Radice (New Delhi: Penguin India, 2011). 

G.M. Muktibodh ‘The Void’, (tr. Vinay Dharwadker) in The Oxford Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry, ed. Vinay Dharwadker and A.K. Ramanujam (New Delhi: OUP, 2000).

UNIT 4:

Amrita Pritam ‘I Say Unto Waris Shah’, (tr. N.S. Tasneem) in Modern Indian Literature: An Anthology, Plays and Prose, Surveys and Poems, ed. K.M. George, vol. 3 (Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 1992). 

ThangjamIbopishak Singh ‘The Land of the Half-Humans’, tr. Robin S. Ngangom, in The Anthology of Contemporary Poetry from the Northeast (NEHU: Shillong, 2003).

UNIT 5:

Girish Karnad, Fire and the Rai4. Oxford University Press (1 April 1999)

Class Presentation Topics:

  • The Aesthetics of Translation
  • Linguistic Regions and Languages
  • Modernity in Indian Literature Caste, Gender and Resistance
  • Authenticity in translated works

Suggested Readings:

Textbooks

1.     Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna (Editor). The Oxford India Anthology of Twelve Modern Indian Poets, Oxford University Press New Delhi. 2004.

2.     Urvashi Butalia, The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India (Delhi: Kali for Women, 2000).

Reference Books

1.     Venugopal, C.V. The Indian Short Story in English: A Survey. Bareilly: Prakash Book Depot. 1976.

2.     Mehta, Kamal. The Twentieth Century Indian Short Story in English. New Delhi: Creative Books, 1997.

3.     Sujit Mukherjee, ‘A Link Literature for India’, in Translation as Discovery (Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 1994) pp. 34–45. 

4.     G.N. Devy, ‘Introduction’, from After Amnesia in The G.N. Devy Reader (New Delhi: Orient Black Swan, 2009) pp. 1–5. 

 


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