Course Outcomes |
Teaching-Learning Strategies |
Assessment Strategies |
The students will: CO 141. Acquire analytical and critical skills so as to read for interdisciplinary feminist scholarship CO 142. Appreciate the stylistic representation of the diversity of women’s experiences, over time and across cultures CO 143. Analyse the critical and theoretical debates surrounding women’s writing CO 144. Appraise the representation of culture, identity and history in the given texts CO 145. Create an understanding of women’s historical and contemporary agency and how these have shaped women characters’ lives in various geographic settings |
Approach in teaching: Discussion, Demonstration via Presentation Learning activities for the students: Report-writing, Seminar-presentation |
Report-writing, Presentation, Viva-Voce |
Nadine Gordimer
July’s People
Marianne Moore What are Years? Nevertheless
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Charlotte Keatley
My Mother Said I Never Should
Sally Morgan
My Place
Arundhati Roy
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Suggested Readings:
Frickey, Pierrette. Critical Perspectives on Jean Rhys. Lynne Rienne Publisher, 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 University Press, 1977.
e-resources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJuhNOsJZ4I by Prof. Sayan Chhatopadhyay , IIT Kanpur
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5xqDSy161E by Prof. Sayan Chhatopadhyay, IIT Kanpur
Journals:
Women’s Writing by Routledge
Gender Studies by Routeledge