Women Writers Across Continents

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

Course Outcomes

Teaching-Learning Strategies

Assessment Strategies

The students will:

CO 111. Analyse diverse literary texts through the perspective of gender

CO 112. Get an insight into theorizing women’s writings drawn from across continents

CO 113. Identify the impact of the socio-political and cultural issues reflected in the prescribed texts

CO 114. Critically appreciate literary texts by women writers across continents

CO 115. Demonstrate an understanding of women’s historical and contemporary agency and how these have shaped women characters’ lives in various geographic settings

 

Approach in teaching:

Discussion, Demonstration via Presentation

Learning activities for the students:

Report-writing, Seminar-presentation

Report-writing, Presentation, Viva-Voce

 

12.00

Mary Wollstonecraft                                                          

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 

(Ch.1, pp. 11–18; Ch.2, pp. 19–38)

 

10.00

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

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.

 

Journals:

Women’s Writing by Routledge.

 

e-resources:

Introduction to Gender Studies by Prof. Rashmi Gaur. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xldCCh3WOQE.

 

Academic Year: