Women’s Writing - I

Paper Code: 
24ENG324(B)
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

The Course will enable the students to get acquainted with the multifaceted and complex literature by women from across the world and investigate the diversity of women’s social and cultural experiences.

 

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

 
 

 

12.00
Unit III: 

Jean Rhys

Wide Sargasso Sea

 

12.00
Unit IV: 

Maya Angelou

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

 

12.00
Unit V: 

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

 

Academic Year: 
2024-2025
Course Outcomes: 

The students will:

CO91. Analyse the critical and theoretical debates surrounding women’s writing

CO92. Evaluate women’s writing chosen to emphasize on an organized theoretical, historical, national or thematic focus

CO93. Examine such writing as discourse to often appropriate and subvert the representation of stereotypical feminine traits

CO94. Appraise the representation of culture, identity, history, constructions of nationhood, etc. in the literary texts

CO95. Develop an understanding of women’s writing, its transition., and development from 18th to 21st century

CO96.  Contribute effectively to course-specific interaction.