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
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Approach in teaching: Discussion, Demonstration via Presentation Learning activities for the students: Report-writing, Seminar-presentation |
Report-writing, Presentation, Viva-Voce |
Mary Wollstonecraft
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
(Ch.1, pp. 11–18; Ch.2, pp. 19–38)
Alice Munro
The Office
Boys and Girls
Margaret Atwood
Happy Endings
Unearthing Suite
Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Yellow Wallpaper
Joyce Carol Oates Them
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Alexis Wright
Carpentaria
Judith Wright
Woman to Man
Bullocky
Zora Neale Hurston
Their Eyes Were Watching God
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.