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Women’s Writing - I
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.
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
Maya Angelou
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
Margaret Atwood
Surfacing
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
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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.
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