Oppression, Sexuality and Desire in the Selected Short Stories of Lalitaambika Antarjanam, Kamala Das and Indira Goswami

Paper Code: 
ENG 144 (d) - Option 24

Unit I

Gender: Masculinity and Femininity* 

Unit II

Oppression, Sexuality and Desire#

Unit III

Lalitambika Antarjanam’s Short Stories%

Unit IV

Kamala Das’ Short Stories$

Unit V

Indira Goswami’s Short Stories^

 

Source Books: 

Essential Reading:

*Spence. Janett and Robert Helmreich. Masculinity and Femininity. Texas Press. 1978. (Chapter 1 Gender, Sex Roles and Psychological Dimensions of Masculinity and Femininity)

#Oppression, Sexuality and Desire from Peta Bowden and Jane Mummery’s Understanding Feminism 13-32 and 73-87.

Kakar, Sudhir. Intimate Relation: Exploring Indian Sexuality. Penguin Books. 1990. 129-40.  

%“Revenge Herself”, “Is this Desirable”, “On the Far Side of Memory”, Parasadam” and “Great Expectations” from “Antarjanam, Lalitambika. On the Far Side of Memory. ed. Mini Krishnam. trans. J. Devika. OUP, 2017.

$“ Kalyani”, “ Parboti’s Story”, “Sandal Tree”, “The Kept Woman” and “ The Cattle Market”  from Das, Kamla. The Kept Woman and Other Stories. OM.2010., The Sandal Trees and Other Stories. Orient Longman.1995.

^“The offspring”, “ The Empty Chest” , “Under the Shadow of Kamakhaya”, “The Beasts”, “To break a Begging Bowl” from Goswami, Indira. The Shadow of Kamakhya. Rupa. 2001.

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Suggested Reading:

Baruah, Munmy Chhetry. “Using Body as a Bunker: Understanding Indira (Mamoni) Goswami’s Resisting Women in Her Writings With Special Reference to The Short Story “The Offspring”. Journal of Research in Humanities and Social Science 7.4. pp. 51-57.

Bowden, Peta and Jane Mummery. Understanding Feminism. Rawat Publications, 2009.

Byrappa, Sunitha. "Mahashweta Devi's "Draupadi" and Kamala Das's "Kalyani": Feminist Perspectives." Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics, vol. 34, no. 1, 2011, pp. 25-31.

Goswami,Purvai. “Women and Translation: Reading Mamoni Raisom Goswami’s The Empty Chest”. The Criterion: An International Journal in English.6.6.pp. 101-07.

Hanson,Clare (editor). Re-reading the Short Story. Palgrave Macmillan, 1989.

Hazarika,Bhaskar Jyoti. “Body, Desire, Sexuality and Widowhood”. English Language Learning pp.1-6. Friday, 9 June 2017.

Jain , Jasbir and Supriya Agarwal . Gender and Narrative. Rawat Publications, 2002.

Jain, Jasbir and Avadhesh Kumar Singh. Indian Feminisms. Creative Books, 2001.

Jain, Jasbir. Indigenous Roots of Feminism : Culture, Subjectivity and Agency. Sage. 2011.

Mehta, Tania. “The Changing Configurations of the Indian Short Story: Sites, Space and Semantics.” Indian Literature, vol. 48, no. 2 (220), 2004, pp. 151–60. 

N, Jayapradha, Yogendra Rao. “Going Beyond the Threshold: A Study of Selected Works of Lalithambika Antharjanam and Kamala Das”. Research Scholar: An International 
Refereed Journal of Literary Explorations. 7.2. pp. 63-69.

Pasco, Allan H. “On Defining Short Stories.” New Literary History, vol. 22, no. 2, 1991, pp. 407–22. 

Reid, Ian. The Short Story. Critical Idiom.Vol. 37. Methuen, 1977.

Sandhya, V., and HariniJayaraman. "Citationality of Gender: Judith Butler and Kamala Das." IUP Journal of English Studies, vol. 14, no. 2, 2019, pp. 32-41.

Sarma, Anup.“Dealing with Patriarchy in Dr. Indira Goswami’s Short Story The Offspring”. IJHSSS 11.3. pp. 214-18.

Tharu, Susie and K. Lalitha (editors). Women Writing in India: 600 BC to the Present. Vol.1. Delhi: OUP, 1995.

Academic Year: 
2018-2019