Women Writers Across Continents

Paper Code: 
24ENG421
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

The Course will enable the students to recognise the literary texts that prioritize women’s issues across continents and identify the selected writers’ individual cultural bearings and literary sensibilities.

 

 

12.00
Unit I: 

Mary Wollstonecraft                                                          

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 

(Chap. 1, pp. 11–18 & Chap. 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

 

Kate Chopin

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: 
2024-2025
Course Outcomes: 

The students will:

CO109. Analyse diverse literary texts through the perspective of gender

CO110. Explore by theorizing women’s writings drawn from across continents

CO111. Identify the impact of the socio-political and cultural issues reflected in the prescribed texts

CO112. Critique literary texts by women writers drawn from across continents

CO113. Evaluate women’s historical and contemporary agency and how these have shaped women-characters’ lives in various geographic settings

 CO114.  Contribute effectively to course-specific interaction.