Course Outcomes |
Teaching-Learning Strategies |
Assessment Strategies |
The students will: CO 91. Analyse the critical and theoretical debates surrounding women’s writing CO 92. Evaluate women’s writing chosen to emphasize on an organized theoretical, historical, national or thematic focus CO 93. Appreciate women’s writing as discourse to often appropriate and subvert the representation of stereotypical feminine traits CO 94. Appraise the representation of culture, identity, history, constructions of nationhood, etc. in the literary texts CO 95. Develop and demonstrate an understanding of women’s writing, its transition., and development from 18th to 21st century |
Approach in teaching: Discussion, Demonstration via Presentation Learning activities for the students: Report-writing, Seminar-presentation |
Report-writing, Presentation, Viva-Voce |
George Eliot The Mill on the Floss
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Simone de Beauvoir “Introduction” and “Section I” from The Second Sex
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Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea
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Maya Angelou I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
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Margaret Atwood Surfacing
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Suggested Readings:
Atwood, Margaret. Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature. Mc Cleland & Stewart, 2004.
Mill, John Stuart. The Subjugation of Women. Longman Publishers, 1869.
Mitchell, Juliet. Psychoanalysisand Feminism: A Radical Assessment of Freudian Psychoanalysis. Penguin Books, 2000.
Showalter, Elaine. A Literature of Their Own. Princeton University Press, 1999.
---. ed. The New Feminist Criticism: Essays on Women, Literature and Theory. Virago, 1986.
e-resources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESp-LSToE9w (Rhys)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_ge5ZF-idM (Angelou)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLEAtAygYsc (Atwood)
Journals:
Women’s Writing
Gender Studies