Women’s Writing - I

Paper Code: 
ENG 32A-B
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

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

12.00
Unit I: 

George Eliot    

The Mill on the Floss

 
12.00
Unit II: 

Simone de Beauvoir 

“Introduction” and “Section I” from The Second Sex

13.00
Unit III: 

Jean Rhys

Wide Sargasso Sea

 
11.00
Unit IV: 

Maya Angelou 

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

 
12.00
Unit V: 

Margaret Atwood

Surfacing

 
SUGGESTED READINGS: 

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

 

 

Academic Year: