Women’s Writing – I

Paper Code: 
ENG 324 – B
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

•         To familiarize the students with the respective literary ages and their salient features, various literary movements and trends and the representative writers and their individual traits.

12.00
Unit I: 
Unit 1

Nadine Gordimer                                              

 July’s People

12.00
Unit II: 
Unit 2

Maya Angelou                                                                                                             

 I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

13.00
Unit III: 
Unit 3

Kamala Das                                                       

The Sunshine Cat

The Old Playhouse

11.00
Unit IV: 
Unit 4

Alice Munro                                                                                                             

The Office

Boys and Girls

Dance of the Happy Shades

 

Margaret Atwood

Surfacing

12.00
Unit V: 
Unit 5

Charlotte Keatley

My Mother Said I Never Should

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Atwood, Margaret. Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature. Canada: Mc Cleland & Stewart, 2004.Print.

Mill, John Stuart. The Subjection of Women. London: Longman Publishers, 1869. Print.

Mitchell, Juliet. Psychoanalysis and Feminism: A Radical Assessment of Freudian Psychoanalysis. New York: Penguin Books, 2000. Print.  

Showalter, Elaine. A Literature of Their Own. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999.Print.

Showalter, Elaine, ed. The New Feminist Criticism: Essays on Women, Literature and Theory. Chelsea: Virago, 1986.Print.

Academic Year: 
2017-2018