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Sunday, February 24, 2008

New Literature

Background
Postcolonialism - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcolonialism
Postocolonial Theories and Issues - Singarpore Univ
http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/poldiscourse/themes/themes.html
Introduction to PC Studies
http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Intro.html
A Postcolonial Perspective
http://www.sou.edu/English/IDTC/Issues/postcol/Resources/Terry/dehay.htm
Some Issues in PC Theory
http://www.brocku.ca/english/courses/4F70/postcol.html
Postcolonial Identity , PC Lit
http://www.usp.nus.edu.sg/post/zimbabwe/sofield/6.html
Subversion - Language (NUS)
http://www.postcolonialweb.org/poldiscourse/brandon1.html
Us/Them: Translation, Transcription and Identity in Post-Colonial (Book)
http://books.google.co.in/books?id=DjTO-ULUvfcC&pg=PA320&lpg=PA320&dq=master+narrative+postcolonial+literature&source=web&ots=iVvOp99esB&sig=uo6_9ZacDWlqTzszHNzisTwNcXQ&hl=en (Around p. 320)
English Postcoloniality: Literatures from Around the World (Book)
http://books.google.co.in/books?id=H_uwA78YZDoC&pg=PA83&lpg=PA83&dq=oral+narratives+postcolonial&source=web&ots=asPDB24mce&sig=IByA_Ko33A8FPoA5o1JEICpk6-8&hl=en (around p.83)
Postcolonial Feminism - wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcolonial_feminism
Postcolonialism, Nation and Gender - few links
http://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/Literary_Criticism/postcolonism/#Issues
Australia + PC
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/pir/postgrad/vol1_issue1/vol1_article2.hti
Language + PC
http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Language.html

Canada
http://www.postcolonialweb.org/canada/literature/martin1.html
More lInks to PC Theory
http://faculty.pittstate.edu/~knichols/colonial2.html


ACHEBE
About Achebe - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinua_Achebe
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthills_of_the_Savannah
Text
http://books.google.co.in/books?id=phUedMtBADIC&dq=achebe+anthills+of+savannah&pg=PP1&ots=pA4SJpkG9D&sig=Ac8I2ubwdEvvT1kWn5yd1NEw15c&hl=en&prev=http://www.google.co.in/search?hl=en&rlz=1T4GGIH_en-GBIN258IN258&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=achebe+%2B+anthills+of+savannah&spell=1&oi=print&ct=title&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail
Enotes
http://www.enotes.com/anthills-savannah
Bookrags
http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-anthillssavannah/
The Continuing Colonialism
http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/achebe/contcol.html
Post History and Biblical Example
http://echeruo.syr.edu/biodata/Achebe

Emecheta
Text
http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=ORruCslCOjEC&dq=emecheta+the+joys+of+motherhood&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=97y5DkwMPD&sig=8TWoEdVGOYB8YL-ivFns0bpHgEM
Nnu Ego's Enslavement
http://www.fb10.uni-bremen.de/anglistik/kerkhoff/africanlit/Emecheta/EmechetaAlgarin.htm
Summary
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/anglophone/emecheta.html
Notes
http://www.wmich.edu/dialogues/texts/joysofmotherhood.html
About Emecheta
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buchi_Emecheta
African Wo/Man Palava: The Nigerain Novel by Women
http://books.google.com/books?id=OBfCMl6FiQQC&pg=PA254&lpg=PA254&dq=emecheta+the+joys+of+motherhood&source=web&ots=V1r1j4olLN&sig=fn3-7PVPsyxBVpZb4c2TX1NibvI#PPA255,M1 (around p. 255)
African Literatures in the Eighties
http://books.google.com/books?id=muARApGW2CQC&pg=PA68&lpg=PA68&dq=emecheta+the+joys+of+motherhood&source=web&ots=hbOL6o9v4K&sig=t62c9LCh5jCz6UiO6FKprLzQ494 (around p. 68)


Shani Mootoo
About Mootoo - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shani_Mootoo
Autobiographical Parallels
http://www.postcolonialweb.org/canada/literature/mootoo/da3.html
Short Summary
http://books.google.co.in/books?id=MEISAAAACAAJ&dq=Shani+Mootoo&hl=en&prev=http://www.google.co.in/search?hl=en&rlz=1T4GGIH_en-GBIN258IN258&q=Shani+Mootoo&sa=X&oi=print&ct=result&cd=2&cad=author-navigational
Review 1
http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/11/29/bib/981129.rv124339.html
Dislocation and Desire
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3822/is_200410/ai_n14681778
Few more links
http://www.postcolonialweb.org/canada/literature/mootoo/theme.html

Walcott
About Walcott - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Walcott
Review
http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9802E5D81538F933A05756C0A967948260


Davies
About Davies - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robertson_Davies
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Business
Book Rags Notes
http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-fifth-business/
Robertson Davies: A Mingling of Contrarieties
http://books.google.com/books?id=52tONoFpwooC&pg=PA60&lpg=PA60&dq=davies+fifth+business&source=web&ots=Ecu_mUtGlR&sig=mdWOULFvgaSCge9EFZJO_iTItxQ (around p.60)
The Theme of Guilt
http://www.articlemyriad.com/92.htm
Reading Guide
http://us.penguingroup.com/static/rguides/us/fifth_business.html
Short Summary
http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/personal/reading/davies-fifth.html
Review
http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~tanguay/book44.htm

Morgan
About Morgan - wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Morgan_(artist)
About Morgan
http://www.aboriginalartonline.com/art/sally-morgan.php
My Place as Counter-memory
http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/litserv/SPAN/32/Trees.html
Engendering the Bi-centennial reader
http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/litserv/SPAN/36/Ommundsen.html
Summary/Review
http://www.booksloveme.com/2006/12/30/my-place-by-sally-morgan/

Lawler
About Lawler - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Lawler
Introduction to the play
http://www.hat-archive.com/summerofthe17thdoll.htm

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Novels

One Hundred Years of Solitude
About Marquez - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_García_Márquez
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Hundred_Years_of_Solitude
NY Times Review
http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/06/15/reviews/marque-solitude.html
Lecture Notes
http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/introser/marquez.htm
Spark Notes
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/solitude/

MONEY
About Amis - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Amis
Fictions of Commodity Culture - Book
http://books.google.co.in/books?id=nxNODVnyrVEC&pg=PA63&lpg=PA63&dq=amis+money&source=web&ots=EzntqLdWFn&sig=Mbz20lWJ1sge3v6seHn9eP1lZMk&hl=en (around p.63)
Literature and the Writer - Book (on narrator)
http://books.google.co.in/books?id=Ac7HQieM_gwC&pg=PA198&lpg=PA198&dq=money+amis&source=web&ots=uzm5UJdotk&sig=OCBlGC1dxyz06j1roPVc5rieWtQ&hl=en (around p.198)
Metaddiction: Addiction at Work in Martin Amis’ Money - article by Michael Cohen (slightly difficult and only few sections relevant for exam)
http://www.janushead.org/7-1/Cohen.pdf
Synopses and Reviews - Powel Books
http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=0140088911
Link to Brian Finney's Article (sections relevant - addresses most topics)
http://www.csulb.edu/~bhfinney/Amis1.html
A short Intro to Money if you read through + brief Bio of author
http://biography.jrank.org/pages/4099/Amis-Martin-Louis.html

American Lit - Part II

Q1)
An Outline of American Literature - Rev. Ed.
http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/oal/lit6.htm
PAL - Perspectives in American Literature
http://web.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap7/7intro.html
A History of American Literature - book
http://books.google.com/books?id=7OU35lNHOnUC&pg=PA553&lpg=PA553&dq=The+second+world+war+%2B+american+literature+&source=web&ots=GG3Btw42GT&sig=g1kE-2D3irr5__M5yQ1wEjM_rC0#PPP1,M1
From The Lost Generation to Cold War
http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/amliteuro/depression.html
Modernism and Experimentation
http://usa.usembassy.de/etexts/oal/lit6.htm
Outline of American Literature
http://usa.usembassy.de/etexts/oal/oaltoc.htm
McCarthy Era
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1132/is_n4_v42/ai_9397183/pg_1
The Lost Generation - Britannica
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9049008/Lost-Generation#166279.hook
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_literature
Jewish Literature
http://jbuff.com/c021501.htm
Beat Generation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_generation
Brief Overview of the Beat Generation
http://www.glbtq.com/literature/beat_gen.html
American Gothic
http://www.learner.org/amerpass/unit06/instructor.html


Q2)

FAULKNER
About Faulkner - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Faulkner
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_I_Lay_Dying_(novel)
Brief Summary
http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/faulkner/n-aild.html
Bookrags - Notes
http://www.bookrags.com/notes/aild/


HEMINGWAY
About Hemingway - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Man_and_the_Sea
Text - Old Man and The Sea
http://books.google.co.in/books?id=K1cIZmFe7KoC&dq=hemingway+old+man+and+the+sea&pg=PP1&ots=DXmNfq9wOb&sig=isruwhQyRxoGNQ4vq_jXtJ9qfD0&hl=en&prev=http://www.google.co.in/search?sourceid=navclient&hl=en-GB&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGIH_en-GBIN258IN258&q=Hemingway+%2B+Old+Man+and+The+Sea&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail
ENotes
http://www.enotes.com/omas/
Novel Guide
http://www.novelguide.com/oldmanandthesea/index.html
ENotes
http://www.enotes.com/short-story-criticism/old-man-and-sea-ernest-hemingway

WRIGHT
About Wright - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wright_(author)
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Son
Bookrags - Notes
http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-nativeson/
ENotes
http://www.enotes.com/native-son


Q3)

EZRA POUND
About Pound - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Pound
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cantos
Commentary
http://www.deepleafproductions.com/wilsonlibrary/texts/raw-cantos.html

ROBERT FROST
About Frost - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Frost
Poems' Links
http://www.ketzle.com/frost/
Desert Places
http://www.eliteskills.com/c/13216
Bereft
http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/robertfrost/12137
For Once, Then Something
http://www.eliteskills.com/c/13208
Once by the Pacific
http://plagiarist.com/poetry/727/
The Telephone
http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/robertfrost/12078
The Road Not Taken
http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/frost/section7.rhtml
Fire and Ice
http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/frost/section9.rhtml
Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening
http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/frost/section10.rhtml
Home Burial
http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/frost/section4.rhtml
Mowing
http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/frost/section1.html
My Novemebr Guest
http://plagiarist.com/poetry/718/
The Sound of the Trees
http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/robertfrost/759
Hyla Brook
http://www.eliteskills.com/c/13201
To Earthward
http://www.eliteskills.com/c/13140


ADRIENNE RICH
Politics in Rich's Poetry
http://www.adriennerich.hpg.ig.com.br/chapter2.htm
A Brief Analysis
http://www.insightpublications.com.au/shop/pdf/Adrienne%20Rich%20p131.pdf
About Rich - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrienne_Rich
More on Adreinne rich and a few poems
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=428
ENotes
http://www.enotes.com/contemporary-literary-criticism/rich-adrienne-vol-125

Q4)

O'NEILL
Text - Mourning Becomes Electra
http://books.google.co.in/books?id=UuXqVmP_BP0C&dq=%22o+neill%22+mourning+becomes+electra&pg=PP1&ots=LZdTHM0g83&sig=HGV0k5nkbD1qMKt94eGgu_0r8U4&hl=en&prev=http://www.google.co.in/search?hl=en&q=O%27Neill+%2B+Mourning+Becomes+Electra+&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail
Spark Notes
http://www.sparknotes.com/drama/mourning/context.html
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mourning_Becomes_Electra
About O'Neill - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_O

SAM SHEPARD
About Shepard - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Shepard
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buried_Child
Enotes
http://www.enotes.com/buried-child/
More on Shepard's Plays
http://www.longpauses.com/blog/2000/01/buried-child-1978.html

EDWARD ALBEE
About Albee
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Albee
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Tall_Women
Bookrags - Notes
http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-threetallwomen/

AUGUST WILSON
About Wilson - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Wilson
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fences_(play)
Bookrags - Notes
http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-fences/




Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Indian Literature in Translation

POETRY

Kabir
Wikiquote
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kabir
Bijak - Review (Indiaclub)
http://www.indiaclub.com/Shop/SearchResults.asp?ProdStock=2082
Kabir - Mystic Philosopher
http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~malaiya/kabir.html
Bijak - Review (Oxford Scholarship Online)
http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/public/content/religion/9780195148763/toc.html
The Oxford Handbook of Global Religions (Book)
http://books.google.co.in/books?id=lQMurMhRtfIC&pg=PA37&lpg=PA37&dq=kabir+bijak&source=web&ots=U9JqEms8TQ&sig=STc7HBcWwScMOJiF3YpCmn86NKQ&hl=en (around p.37)
Kabirpanthis
http://philtar.ucsm.ac.uk/encyclopedia/hindu/devot/kabir.html
On Kabir's poetry
http://www.poetseers.org/the_poetseers/kabir/kabir_index
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabir
Article in The Hindu
http://www.hinduonnet.com/2002/06/01/stories/2002060102540300.htm
The Bijak of Kabir (Book) (contains Intro etc. from which to get ans)
http://books.google.co.in/books?hl=en&id=AtY7jvIZvq8C&dq=kabir+%2B+bijak&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=MDOGxoA5Fh&sig=CmsUH1b7CkEHBXxePGzk94l_9tc#PPR10,M1

Tukaram
Says Tuka - Links to Intro by Dilip Chitre
http://www.tukaram.com/pages/introduction.asp
On Tukaram
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/Religions/gurus/Tukaram.html
Interview with Dilip Chitre on Says Tuka
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/39298037.cms
PDF Article - Excerpts from Dilip Chitre's comments
http://www.sankeertanam.com/saints%20texts/Sant%20TukArAm.pdf


RABINDRANATH TAGORE

Book Review
http://www.mouthshut.com/review/Gora_-_Rabindranath_Tagore-45614-1.html
Book Review 02
http://www.mouthshut.com/review/Gora_-_Rabindranath_Tagore-33934-1.html
BOOK
http://books.google.co.in/books?id=t7FmvQRDSZ8C&dq=Rabindranath+Tagore+%2B+Gora&pg=PP1&ots=JB1hQUMCF9&sig=BeJcjsO9vg457eiQldWT8bPVdy4&hl=en&prev=http://www.google.co.in/search?hl=en&q=Rabindranath+Tagore+%2B+Gora&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail#PPA77,M1
Critique of the Book (do not follow)
http://www.mukto-mona.com/personalities/rabindranath_alt.htm

GOPINATH MOHANTI

Summary of Paraja
http://wisdomsalad.com/2007/12/13/paraja-a-novel-by-gopinath-mohanty/
Short Summary and on Author
http://www.indiaclub.com/Shop/SearchResults.asp?ProdStock=4026
On the Author
http://orissadiary.com/personality/writer/GOPINATHMOHANTY%20.asp


NEMADE

On Kosala (Cocoon)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosala_(novel)
Author
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhalchandra_Nemade
Devy Book
http://books.google.com/books?id=MbGyZN1I4E0C&pg=PA192&lpg=PA192&dq=Nemade+%2B+Kosala&source=web&ots=rUoiK7auor&sig=JaUyA3jPFzJYF37QT7vYg5zsN24
A Blog on Nemade's Kosala
http://www.anothersubcontinent.com/forums/lofiversion/index.php?t2790.html
Indian Literary Criticism
http://books.google.com/books?id=MbGyZN1I4E0C&pg=PA192&lpg=PA192&dq=nemade+%2B+kosala&source=web&ots=rUoiK8eqpn&sig=UTcsBeziTEoVFwb4h-QAcsD7O8U

BASHEER

On the Author
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaikom_Muhammad_Basheer
Voices
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabdangal
The Walls
http://www.venumenon.com/articles/article_page.asp?catid=6&artid=4


MOHAN RAKESH

Summary
http://www.shvoong.com/books/480276-half-house-adhe-adhure/
Good for Introduction to the Answer
http://www.indiaclub.com/shop/SearchResults.asp?ProdStock=209

GIRISH KARNAD

On Karnad
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girish_Karnad
Comparison with the Hindi film Paheli
http://www.hindu.com/mp/2005/06/28/stories/2005062800580400.htm
Folk Theatre and Human Complexity in Nagamandala
http://www.languageinindia.com/oct2007/nagamandala.html

H.S. SHIVA PRAKASH

Review
http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/fr/2007/04/13/stories/2007041301210300.htm
The Book on Trial: Fundamentalism and Censorship in India
http://books.google.com/books?id=n-KUICFfA00C&pg=PA392&lpg=PA392&dq=hs+shiva+prakash+mahachaitra&source=web&ots=pZKgnRTgWT&sig=JktzdejCKNmn-_sEHLre_C51AQo (p.392 on wards)

DHIRUBEN PATEL

On the film
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhavni_Bhavai
Film Info
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080435/




TRANSLATION THEORY

Links to Indian Literature
http://www.indianetzone.com/literature/
History of Indian Literature from 12th Century
http://www.indianetzone.com/2/history_indian_literature.htm
Indian Literature
http://www.diehardindian.com/demogrph/moredemo/literatr.htm
Bhakti Movement
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhakti_movement
Medieval Indian Literature: An Anthology (Book)
http://books.google.com/books?id=KYLpvaKJIMEC&pg=PA281&lpg=PA281&dq=Bhakti+Movement+%2B+Indian+Literature+&source=web&ots=uElwLAd5oD&sig=UnlJ7v7EWDdtlyZQ_tZDF7bkXk4#PPP13,M1
Islamic Influence
http://mea.gov.in/speech/2005/01/15ss01.pdf
Islam in India
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_India
Indian Literature - A Contested Category
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00litlinks/txt_raveendran_indianlit_2006.pdf
A History of Indian Literature - review
http://www.soas.ac.uk/soaslit/Issue4a/Srivastava.pdf
Us / Them: Translation, Transcription and Identity in Post Colonial
http://www.soas.ac.uk/soaslit/Issue4a/Srivastava.pdf




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translation_studies
Translation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translation
Translation Theory
http://accurapid.com/journal/43theory.htm
The Importance of Culture in Translation
http://accurapid.com/journal/22delight.htm
Translation Proceedures, Strategies, Methods
http://www.accurapid.com/journal/41culture.htm
Translation Journal - Contents
http://accurapid.com/journal/toc.htm#cult
Translation with reference to the Bible
http://www.bible-researcher.com/gnbc-ch4.html
Translation Studies: Perspectives on an Emerging Discussion - Book
http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=Lqf508FYrwsC&dq=translation+studies&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=FMAIiMU6yE&sig=83BpOhxvw_3TpLikRa7Okq-7V88#PPA14,M1
Translation Studies by Susan Bassnett - Book
http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=YkAOAAAAQAAJ&dq=translation+studies&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=pbKVhxnBLv&sig=Tr6caDJXJyDAsYsWUod9QSx8F0Q