Women’s Writing – I

Paper Code: 
ENG 324 – B
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

  • The course will enable the students to:

    • Acquaint themselves with the multifaceted and complex literature by women from across the world
    • Be exposed to the diversity of women’s social and cultural experiences

 

12.00
Unit I: 

Nadine Gordimer                                              

 July’s People

12.00
Unit II: 

Maya Angelou                                                                                                                

 I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

13.00
Unit III: 

Kamala Das                                                       

The Sunshine Cat

The Old Playhouse

11.00
Unit IV: 

Alice Munro                                                                                                             

The Office

Boys and Girls

Dance of the Happy Shades

 

Margaret Atwood

Surfacing

12.00
Unit V: 

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: 
2019-2020