Department Of English Nehu Shillong

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Department of English, NEHU Shillong was established in the year 1973. It is located at Shillong .

Courses Offered:
M.A. English
M. Phil
Ph.D. English

Open Courses offered by the Department of English in the 2nd Semester

Department of English, NEHU Shillong
Open Courses details
Unit I
a) Alan Paton: Cry, the Beloved Country
b) Nadine Gordimer: My Son’s Story
Unit II
a) Chinua Achebe : No Longer at Ease
b) Ngugi Wa Thiongo : A Grain of Wheat
Unit III
V.S. Naipaul: A House for Mr. Biswas
Unit IV
Salman Rushdie: Midnight’s Children
Suggested Reading:
Alexander, Peter F. Alan Paton: A Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Ball, John Clement. Satire and the Postcolonial Novel: V.S.Naipaul, Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie.
London: Routledge, 2003.
Boehmer, Elleke. Colonial and Postcolonial Literature.New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Callan, Edward. Alan Paton. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1968.
Gandhi, Leela. Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction. New York: New York University Press,
1988.
Gurr, Andrew. Writers in Exile. London: Harvester Publishers 1981.
Innes, C.L. Chinua Achebe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Jacobs, Johan:Migrating the Texts: Hybridity as a Postcolonial Construct. Turin: L’Harmattan Italia,
2003.
John, O. Jordan. “Alan Paton and the Novel of South African Liberalism: Too Late the Phalorope” in
Modern Fiction Studies 42.4, pp 681-706.
King, Bruce ed. The Later Fiction of Nadine Gordimer, London: Macmillan Press, 1993.
King, Bruce ed. The Later Fiction of Nadine Gordimer. London: Macmillan, 1998.
Lane, Richard, J. National Consciousness: Ngugi Wa Thiongo’s A Grain of Wheat. Oxford: Polity
Press, 2006.
Mukherjee, Meenakshi ed. Midnight’s Children: A Book of Readings. New Delhi: Pencraft, 1999.
Mustaf, Fawzia. V.S.Naipaul. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Mustafa, Fawzia. V.S. Naipaul. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Narasimhaiah, C.D. ed. Awakened Consciousness: Studies in Commonwealth Literature. Delhi:
Sterling Publishers, 1978.
Osei-Nyame, Godwin. “The Nation as Community: Chinua Achebe’s No Longer at Ease”. Kunapipi,
21.1 pp 30-41, 2007.
Ray, Mohit. ed. V.S.Naipaul: Critical Essays Vol.III. New Delhi: Atlantic, 2005.
Sinha, Namita. Nadine Gordimer’s My Son’s Story: A Critical Study. New Delhi: Asia Book Club,
2005.
TempleThurston, Barbara. Nadine Gordimer Revisited. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1999.
Trivedi, H. & M. Mukherjee eds. Interrogating Post-Colonialism (Theory, Text and Context). Shimla:
Institute of Advanced Study, 1996.
Viswanathan, Gauri. Outside the old: Conversion, Modernity and Belief. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1998.
ENG: O 110- World Literature in Translation (Open Course- Option B) 4 Credits
World Literature in Translation has emerged as a viable category of literary studies. The course aims
at familiarizing students with contemporary literary classics originally written in languages such as
Norwegian, French, German, Italian and Spanish. Besides covering the genres of drama, novel and
poetry the course also introduce students to literary techniques and styles like magic realism, epic
theatre, commedia dell’arte and literature of the absurd.
Unit I
a)Ibsen: A Doll’s House
Unit II
Dario Fo: Accidental Death of an Anarchist
Unit III
a) Albert Camus: The Outsider
b) Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Love in the Time of Cholera
Unit IV
a) Pablo Neruda:
i) Everyday You Play
ii) Poetry
iii) I’m Explaining a Few Things
iv) Ode to a Tomato
v) Discoverers of Chile
vi) Fable of the Mermaid and the Drunks
b) Anna Akhmatova:
i) Lot’s Wife
ii) March Elegy
iii) I Taught Myself to Live Simply
iv) The Song of the Last Encounter
v) For Osip Mandelstam
vi) For M.B.
c) Faiz Ahmed Faiz:
i) Last Night
ii) Love Do Not Ask
iii) Dogs
iv) A Prison Nightfall
v) Oh City of Many Lights
vi) Before You Came
Suggested Reading:
Bloom, Harold. Modern Critical Views: Gabriel Garcia Marquez. New York: Chelsea House
Publishers, 1989.
Ellmann, Richard (ed.). The Modern Tradition: Backgrounds of Modern Literature. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1992.
Hirst, David. Dario Fo and Franca Rame. Hampshire: Macmillan, 1989.
Jacobus, Lee A. Bedford Introduction to Drama. New York: St. Martins’ Press, 1989.
Kahns, Richards. Tragedy: Contradictions and Repression. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1993.
Kiernan, V.G. Trans. Poems by Faiz. New Delhi: OUP, 1971
Northam, John. Ibsen: A Critical Study. London: Everyman, 1970.
Parkar, Emmett. Albert Camus: the Artist in the Arena. New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1965.
Wells, David. Anna Akhmatova: Her Poetry. Washington D.C.:Berg Publishers, 1996.
Willi] ams Raymond. Drama from Ibsen to Brecht. London: Chatto and Windus, 1968.


Faculty List :

Prof. Esther Syiem
Dr. Mala Renganathan
Dr. Sukalpa Bhattacharjee
Ms. Nobonita Ganguly
Mr. Ng. R. Singh
Mr. Lang Kupar K. War
Ms. Suranjana Choudhury
Ms. Isawanda Laloo
Ms. Rimi Nath
Mr. Somjyoti Mridha
Dr. Moon Moon Mazumdar
Dr. Jyotirmoy Prodhani
Dr. Utpala Ghaley Sewa
Dr. K. S. Nongkynrih
Ms. Nola Syiem

Contact Details :
Department of English, NEHU Shillong
Prof. E. Syiem
Department of English
North-Eastern Hill University
Shillong-22
Phone No. 272 3503 / 272 3513