2025/2026

Англоязычная литература Южной Азии

Статус: Дисциплина общефакультетского пула

Кто читает: Институт классического Востока и античности

Где читается: Факультет гуманитарных наук

Когда читается: 3 модуль

Охват аудитории: для всех кампусов НИУ ВШЭ

Преподаватели: Дубянская Татьяна Александровна

Язык: английский

Кредиты: 3

Контактные часы: 36

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The 200-plus-years-long history of intensive English-Indian literary relations brought into life a large number of important literary works, which describe India and Indians from the Western perspective and/or which are written by authors of South-Asian origin, primarily in English, as direct or indirect responses to the colonial situation. Many texts, created by South-Asian authors in the 19th-21st centuries, are also categorised as “Indian Writing in English”; this body of literature, which has constituted one of the key subject-matters of both Colonial and Postcolonial studies, is often recognized as “the best-known segment of Indian literature internationally” (H.Trivedi). The increasing popularity of Indian writing in English has made quite a few India-born or ethnically-Indian writers international literary celebrities in the modern world. The present course will try to look into the circumstances that made this outstanding growth in the role of English texts in the Subcontinent possible and led to the triumphant popularity of modern writers like Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, Amitav Ghosh, Aravind Adiga, Rohinton Mistry et al in the international book-market.