Women’s Writing - II

Paper Code: 
ENG 424 - B
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
10.00
Unit I: 
Simone de Beauvoir

Introduction and Section I from The Second Sex

 

12.00
Unit II: 
Unit II

Marianne Moore                                                     What are Years?

                                                                            Nevetheless

 

 

 

12.00
Unit III: 
Unit III

George Eliot                                                                     Silas Marner

12.00
Unit IV: 
Unit IV

Jean Rhys                                                              Wide Sargasso Sea

                                                     

 

12.00

Mahashweta Devi                                                       Mother of 1084 (in translation)

SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • 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: 
2014-2015