20th Century Indian Writing Course

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Indian English literature (IEL) refers to the body of work by writers in India who write in the English language and whose native or co-native language could be one of the numerous languages of India.

Do you know about Indian writing that Salman Rushdie, V.S. Naipaul, Kiran Desai, and Jhumpa Lahiri, they are Indian Descent, they associated with Indian English literature (IEL) as an members of work.

It is frequently referred to as Indo-Anglian literature.
Indo-Anglican is a specific term in the sole context of writing that should not be confused with the term Anglo-Indian.

As a category, this production comes under the broader realm of postcolonial literature- the production from previously colonized countries such as India.

In the medieval period, literature in Kannada and Telugu appeared in the 5th and 11th centuries respectively. Later, literature in Marathi, Bengali, various dialects of Hindi, Persian and Urdu began to appear as well. Early in the 20th century, Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore became India's first Nobel laureate.

In contemporary Indian literature, there are two major literary awards; these are the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship and the Jnanpith Award. Eight Jnanpith awards each have been awarded in Hindi and Kannada, followed by five in Bengali, four in Malayalam, and three in Gujarati, Marathi and Urdu and 2 each in Assamese, Tamil and Telegu.

And for get more knowledge about Literature here I am giving the list of the Reference Literatures which can help you, they are: -

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Haq, Rubana (ed.). The Golden Treasury of Writers Workshop Poetry. Kolkata Writers Workshop, 2008.

Hoskote, Ranjit (ed.). Reasons for Belonging: Fourteen Contemporary Indian Poets. Viking/Penguin Books India, New Delhi, 2002.

King, Bruce Alvin. Modern Indian Poetry in English: Revised Edition. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1987, rev. 2001. ("the standard work on the subject and unlikely to be surpassed" — Mehrotra, 2003)

King, Bruce Alvin. Three Indian Poets - Nissim Ezekiel, A K Ramanujan, Dom Moraes. Madras: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna (ed.). The Oxford India Anthology of Twelve Modern Indian Poets. Calcutta: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna (ed.). A History of Indian Literature in English. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.Distributed in India by Doaba Books Shanti Mohan House 16,Ansari Road, New Delhi

Parthasarathy, R. (ed.). Ten Twentieth-Century Indian Poets (New Poetry in India). New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1976.

Sadana, Rashmi. "Writing in English," in The Cambridge Companion to Modern Indian Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Sadana, Rashmi. English Heart, Hindi Heartland: the Political Life of Literature in India. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012.

Souza, Eunice de. "Nine Indian Women Poets", Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1997.

Souza, Eunice de. Talking Poems: Conversations With Poets. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Souza, Eunice de. Early Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology : 1829-1947. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Srikanth, Rajini. The World Next Door: South Asian American Literature and the Idea of America'. Asian American History and Culture. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 2004.