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In this seminar course, we will focus on representations of a classical Indian music tradition in contemporary literature in English: the Raag. We will acquaint ourselves with this fascinating form, learn about its history, and listen to selected pieces before turning to three novels which engage the Raag: Amit Chaudhuri’s novels An Afternoon Raag and The Immortals and in a novel by Neelum Saran Gour: A Requiem in Raga Janki (a fictional biography of famed musician Jankibai Illahabadi). We will address questions of intermediality, of the translation of musical forms into the literary frame, and, in addition, this course will also serve as an introduction to Indian Anglophone writing. |
