Women Writers Across Continents

Paper Code: 
ENG 421
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
5
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

Course Objectives:

The course will enable the students to:

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

 

Course Outcomes-

The students will:

  • Analyse diverse literary texts through the perspective of gender
  • Get an insight into theorizing women’s writings drawn from across continents
  • Identify the impact of the socio-political and cultural issues reflected in the prescribed texts
  • Critically appreciate literary texts by women writers across continents

 

12.00
Unit I: 
Unit I

Mary Wollstonecraft                                                          

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 

(Ch.1, pp. 11–18; ch.2, pp.19–38)

 

10.00
Unit II: 
Unit II

Alice Munro

The Office

Boys and Girls                                            

 

Margaret Atwood

Happy Endings

Unearthing Suite

 

13.00
Unit III: 
Unit III

Charlotte Perkins Gilman                                            

The Yellow Wallpaper

 

Joyce Carol Oates

Them

 

13.00
Unit IV: 
Unit IV

Alexis Wright

Carpentaria

 

Judith Wright

Woman to Man

Bullocky

 

12.00
Unit V: 
Unit V

Zora Neale Hurston

Their Eyes Were Watching God

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Suggested Readings:

Arkin, Marian. ed. and Barbara Shollar. 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: 
2021-2022