Literature 3801 - Indian Fiction

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Bard College

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Asian Studies, SRE In the days of British colonial rule, the collision of East and West inspired a number of English authors to write some of their best fiction, and since independence several Indian writers have reimagined that collision from a postcolonial perspective. The contradiction of writing about Indian life in the language of the departed British Raj has created a cultural hybridity that some of these novelists turn to advantage. Indian fiction of the modern period is of three kinds: works written by English authors during the last 100 years of the empire; those written by Indian authors during the first 60 years of independence; and those written by Indians in the diaspora. In this course, students read Rudyard Kipling's Kim, E. M. Forster' s A Passage to India, R. K. Narayan's The Guide, Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, Arundhati Roy' s The God ofSmall Things, Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance, Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss, and V. S. Naipaul's A House for Mr. Biswas.

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4.00

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www.bard.edu

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(845) 758-6822

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Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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