Women’s Writing – II

Paper Code: 
ENG 424 – B
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 
  • To familiarize the students with the diversity in works by the later women writers drawn from the world over, belonging to different literary traditions and movements; the salient features of their writing and their individual style
12.00
Unit I: 

Nadine Gordimer                                              

 July’s People

12.00
Unit II: 

Marianne Moore

What are Years?

Nevertheless

12.00
Unit III: 

Charlotte Keatley

My Mother Said I Never Should

12.00
Unit IV: 

Sally Morgan

My Place

12.00
Unit V: 

Arundhati Roy

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Frickey, Pierrette. Critical Perspectives on Jean Rhys. Lynne Rienne Publishers, 1990.
  • Mill, John Stuart. Subjection of Women. Cosimo, 2000.
  • Mitchell, Juliet. Psychoanalysis and Feminism. Basic Books, 2000.
  • Munro, Alice. Dance of the Happy Shades and Other Stories. Penguin, 1998.
  • Showalter, Elaine. A Literature of Their Own: British Novelists from Bronte to Lessing. Princeton UP, 1977.

 

Academic Year: 
2016-2017