Women Writers Across Continents

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

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

 
12.00
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: 

Alice Munro

The Office 

Boys and Girls                                             

 

Margaret Atwood

Happy Endings

Unearthing Suite

 
13.00
Unit III: 

Charlotte Perkins Gilman                                             

The Yellow Wallpaper

 

Joyce Carol Oates

The Awakening

 
13.00
Unit IV: 

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. 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: 
2023-2024