The course will include discussions on the place of the English language and “imported” literary forms in South Asia, the fragmented and divided terrain of the South Asian city/nation, the figure of the expatriate writer, and the context within which to understand the stylistic and narrative aspects of this writing. It will undertake detailed analyses of the works of 3-4 writers, out of a longer list comprising Anita Desai, G V Desani, Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, Vikram Seth, Kiran Nagarkar, Aravind Adiga, Jeet Thayyil, Mohammed Hanif, Mohsin Hamid, Shyam Sevadurai, Romesh Gunesekhera, and others.
