Seminar: 3.02.970 S Representing the Raj: India in Early Twentieth-Century Writing, Kipling to Anand - Details

Seminar: 3.02.970 S Representing the Raj: India in Early Twentieth-Century Writing, Kipling to Anand - Details

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Course name Seminar: 3.02.970 S Representing the Raj: India in Early Twentieth-Century Writing, Kipling to Anand
Subtitle
Course number 3.02.970
Semester SoSe2026
Current number of participants 9
maximum number of participants 13
Home institute Institute of English and American Studies
Courses type Seminar in category Teaching
First date Thursday, 09.04.26, 14:00 - 16:00 o'clock A14 1-112
Type/Form
Lehrsprache englisch

Module assignments

Comment/Description

From Kipling’s and Forster’s novels Kim (1901) and A Passage to India (1924) to Rokeya Hossain’s short story “Sultana’s Dream” (1905), poems by Rabindranath Tagore and Mulk Raj Anand’s less well-known novel Two Leaves and a Bud (1937): in the course of this class, we will analyse a wide range of early twentieth-century literary texts which negotiate direct British rule over the Indian subcontinent from different perspectives and in different forms, genres and modes. In the first part of the seminar, we will combine postcolonial discourse analysis and close readings of the texts; you will engage with secondary literature as well as with questions of literary history and canonisation. One class (on “Sultana’s Dream”) will be taught by Dr. Antara Chatterjee (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal). In the last few sessions, you will practise your presentation skills and develop individual research questions related to the seminar’s topic.

Required reading (primary texts):
- Rudyard Kipling, Kim (1901)
- Rokeya Hossain, “Sultana’s Dream” (1905)
- E.M. Forster, A Passage to India (1924)
- Mulk Raj Anand, Two Leaves and a Bud (1937)
- as well as two poems by Rabindranath Tagore

Please borrow or purchase and read the following editions:
- Rudyard Kipling. Kim. London: Penguin, 2011. [ISBN 978-0141442372]
- E.M. Forster. A Passage to India. London: Penguin, 2015. [ISBN 978-0241214992]

Access to the short story (“Sultana’s Dream”), the poems as well as to Anand’s novel, which is out of print, will be provided.

Admission settings

The course is part of admission "ang971/2/3 981/2/3 991/2/3 MM LitKult".
The following rules apply for the admission:
  • A defined number of seats will be assigned to these courses.
    The seats in the affected courses have been assigned at 20.03.2026 on 08:00. Additional seats may be available via a waiting list.
  • At least one of these conditions must be fulfilled for enrolment:
    • Field of study is Englisch
    • Field of study is Deutsch als Fremdsprache/Deutsch als Zweitsprache
    • Field of study is English Studies
    • Field of study is Anglistik
    • Degree is Anpassungslehrgang
    • Field of study is Gender Studies
  • Enrolment is allowed for up to 1 courses of the admission set.
  • The enrolment is possible from 16.03.2026, 06:00 to 31.05.2026, 23:59.
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