Women’s Writing - II

Paper Code: 
ENG 424 - B
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100
12.00
UNIT I: 
Simone de Beavouir
      ‘Introduction and Section-I’ from The Second Sex

 

12.00
UNIT II: 
Marianne Moore

What are Years?

Nevetheless

 

12.00
UNIT III: 
George Eliot

Silas Marner

 

12.00
UNIT IV: 
Jean Rhys

Wide Sargasso Sea

 

12.00
UNIT V: 
Mahashweta Devi

Mother of 1084 (in translation)

 

Source Books: 
SOURCE BOOKS: 
  • H.M. Parshilay (ed. and trans.) : The Second Sex (Alfred A. Knopf, 1953)
  • Modern Australian Poetry (Penguin)
  • Alice Munro : Dance of the Happy Shades (Penguin)
  • M. Atwood : Survival
  • Elaine Showalter : A Literature of Their Own
  • Elaine Showalter (ed.) The New Feminist Criticism
  • J.S. Mill : Subjection of Women
  • Julilet Mitchell : Psychoanalysis and Feminism
  • Bama: Sangati : Events (Translated by Lakshmi Holmstrom, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2005)

 

Academic Year: 
2015-2016