Women in the Short Stories of Tagore and Mahasweta Devi

Paper Code: 
ENG 144 (a) - Option 15

Unit I

“Tagore’s Liberated Women” by Mary M. Lago

Unit II

“Social Consciousness in Rabindranath’s Short Stories” by SantoshChakrabarti

Unit III

“A Theory of the Short Story” by James Cooper Lawrence

Unit IV

Tagore’s“The Wife’s Letter”, Punishment” and “Women Unknown” from Galpoguchcha

Unit V

Mahasweta Devi’s Breast Stories

Source Books: 

Sources:

Chakrabarti, Santosh. “Social Consciousness in Rabindranath’s Short Stories”.Studies in Tagore: Critical Essays. Atlantic, 2004.

Chattopadhyay, Ratan Kumar. Selections from Galpoguchcha Volume I: Kabuliwalla and Other Stories. Orient Blackswan, 2010.

Chaudhuri, Sukanta, editor. Selected Short Stories.By Rabindranath Tagore, Oxford, 2000.

Lago, Mary M. “Tagore’s Liberated Women”. Journal of South Asian Literature, vol. 12, no. 3/4, 1977, pp. 103-107.JSTOR,www.jstor.org/stable/40872159.

Lawrence, James Cooper. “A Theory of the Short Story”.The North American Review, vol. 205, no. 735, Feb. 1917, pp. 274-286. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/25121469.

Spivak, G.C., translator.Stories.By Mahasweta Devi, Seagull Books, 2014.

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Recommended Reading:

Butler, Judith. Feminist Literary Studies.Cambridge University Press, 1990.

De Beauvior, Simone. The Second Sex.Pan Books Ltd, 1988.

Devika, Ramana. “Feminist Study of Mahasweta Devi’s Breast-Giver (Standayini)”. South -Asian Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies (SAJMS), vol. 3, no. 4.http://sajms.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Breast_Giver_article_April_2016.

 

Iyengar, K.R.S. Indian Writing in English. Sterling Publishers, 2012.

 

Naik, M.K. Dimensions of Indian English Literature.Sterling Publishers, 1965.

 

Pevear, Richard, translator.Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov (Modern Library Classics).By Anton Chekhov.RHUS, 2000.

Spacks, Patricia Meyer. The Female Imagination.Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1975.Study Guide. 2011,www.der.orgfilmsresourcesMahaswetaDeviStudyGuide.pdf.

 

Tharu, Susie, and K. Lalitha.Women Writing in India: 600 BC to the Present.Orient Longman, 1991.

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