Women Writers Across Continents

Paper Code: 
EnG 421
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

  • The course will enable the students to:

    • Get introduced to literary texts that prioritize women’s issues, across continents
    • Get oriented to the selected writers’ individual cultural bearings and literary sensibilities

     

Course Learning Outcomes

The students will be able to:

  • Gain an understanding of diverse literary texts through the perspective of gender and to use it as a context for reading literary texts by women
  • Get an insight into theorizing women’s writings drawn from across continents
12.00
Unit I: 
Mary Wollstonecraft

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 

(Ch.1, pp. 11–19; ch.2, pp.19–38)

 

10.00
Unit II: 

Alice Munro

The Office

Boys and Girls                                             

                                                                                       

Margaret Atwood

Happy Endings

Unearthing Suite

 

13.00

Charlotte Perkins Gilman                                            

The Yellow Wallpaper

                                                                                         

Joyce Carol Oates

Them

13.00

Alexis Wright

Carpentaria

                                                                                        

Judith Wright                                                      

Woman to Man

Bullocky     

12.00
Unit V: 
Zora Neale Hurston

Their Eyes Were Watching God

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Arkin, Marian . and Barbara Shollar. ed. Longman Anthology of World Literature by Women (1875-1975). Longman, 1989.
  • Davidson, Cathy N. and Linda Wagner- Martin. The Oxford Companion to Women’s Writing in the United States. OUP, 1995.
  • Weagel, Deborah. Women and Contemporary World Literature. Peter Lang Inc., 2009.

 

Academic Year: 
2020-2021