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Women in the Short Stories of Tagore and Mahasweta Devi
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
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.
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.