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
George Eliot
The Mill on the Floss
Simone de Beauvoir
“Introduction” and “Section I” from The Second Sex
Jean Rhys
Wide Sargasso Sea
Maya Angelou
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
Margaret Atwood
Surfacing
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