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Women’s Writing (Theory)
The Course will enable the students to acquaint themselves with the multifaceted and complex nature of writings by women from across the world and investigate the diversity of their socio-cultural experiences against the literary history of women’s studies and feminist criticism.
The students will:
CO73.Analyse diverse literary texts through the perspective of gender
CO74.Theorize women’s writings drawn from across continents
CO75. Examine the impact of the socio-political and cultural issues reflected in the prescribed texts
CO76. Critically appreciate literary texts by women writers within historical and contemporary relevance.
CO77.Construct their opinion on how women characters’ lives are shaped in various geographic
Settings
CO78.Contribute effectively in course-specific interaction.
Emily Dickinson
I cannot live with you
I’m wife; I’ve finished that
Sylvia Plath
Daddy
Lady Lazarus
Ariel
The Colossus
Alice Walker
The Color Purple
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Yellow Wallpaper
Katherine Mansfield
Bliss
Arundhati Roy
Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction
Mahasweta Devi
Dopdi
Margaret Atwood
Alias Grace
Suggested Reference Books:
Beauvoir, Simone de. “Introduction”. The Second Sex .Trans. by Constance Borde and Shiela Malovany, Vintage, 2010.
Mohanty, Chandra Talapade. “Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses”. Contemporary Postcolonial Theory: A Reader. Ed by Padmini Mongia, Arnold, 1996.
Sangari , Kumkum and Sudesh Vaid. “Introduction”. Recasting Women: Essays in Colonial History . Kali for Women, 1989.
Woolf, Virginia. “Chaps. 1 and 6 “. A Room of One’s Own. Harcourt, 1957.
E-Resources including links:
https://sheuban.wordpress.com/2009/06/14/a-feminist-literary-criticism-o... https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1762&context=lajm
Reference Journals:
Language Arts Journal of Michigan
International Journal of English Language, Literature in Humanities