Primary texts:
Novels
R.K. Narayan, The Man-Eater of Malgudi (1961)
Anita Desai, Fire on the Mountain (1981)
Kamala Markandaya, Nectar in a Sieve (1954)
Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things (1997)
Salman Rushdie, Shame (1983)
Short stories - In compendium
Vikram Chandra, ‘Shakti’
Kushwant Singh, ‘Karma’
Salman Rushdie, ‘The Prophet’s Hair’
Anita Desai, ‘The Farewell Party’
R.K. Narayan, ‘A Horse and Two Goats’
Secondary texts:
A. General
Ashcroft, Bill, ed., The Post-Colonial Studies Reader (London: Routledge, 2006)
Hopkins, Thomas J., The Hindu Religious Tradition (Belmont, 1971).
Susan Lohafer and Jo Ellyn Clarey, eds. Short Story Theory at a Crossroad (Baton Rouge, 1989)
Said, Edward W., Orientalism (Harmondsworth, 1992).
Stutley, Margaret and James, eds, A Dictionary of Hinduism. Its Mythology, Folklore and Development 1500 B.C.-A.D.1500 (London, 1977).
Childs, Peter, ed., Post-Colonial Theory and English Literature: A Reader (Edinburgh, 1999).
B. On individual authors
R.K. Narayan
Jha, Ashok Kumar, R.K. Narayan: Myths and Archetypes in his Novels (New Delhi, 2000)
Walsh, William, R.K. Narayan, Writers and their Work (Harlow, 1971)
Anita Desai
Jain, Jasbir, Stairs to the Attic: The Novels of Anita Desai (Jaipur, 1987)
Jena, Seema, Voice and Vision of Anita Desai (New Delhi, 1989)
Prasad, Madfusudan, “Imagery in the Novels of Anita Desai: A Critical Study”, World Literature Today, 58, 3 (Summer, 1984)
Sharma, Kajali, Symbolism in Anita Desai’s Novels (New Delhi, 1991)
Kamala Markandaya
Srivastava, Ramesh K., The Novels of Kamala Markandaya: A Critical Study (Amritsar, 1998)
Almeida, Rochelle, Originality and Imitation: Indianness in the Novels of Kamala Markandaya (Jaipur, 2000)
Arundhati Roy
Chakravarty, Joya and Jaydipsinh Dodya, eds, The Critical Studies of Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things (New Delhi, 1999)
Collections of review articles and interviews will be provided for those authors whose names are not listed.
Bakgrunnslitteratur:
The Post-Colonial Studies Reader, edited by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffen, 2nd edition (London and New York: Routledge, 1995)