Women Writers Across Continents

Paper Code: 
ENG 421
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
05
Objective: 

The course will enable the students to:

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

                                 

 

Unit I: 

Mary Wollstonecraft       

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 

(Ch.1, pp. 11–19; ch.2, pp.19–38)

 

Unit II: 
Unit II

Alice Munro

The Office

Boys and Girls                                            

                                                                                       

Margaret Atwood

Happy Endings

Unearthing Suite

 

Unit III: 
Unit III

Charlotte Perkins Gilman                                            

The Yellow Wallpaper

                                                                                          

Joyce Carol Oates

Them

 

Unit IV: 
Unit IV

Alexis Wright

Carpentaria

                                                                                         

Judith Wright                                                      

Woman to Man

Bullocky    

 

Unit V: 
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.

 

 

Academic Year: 
2019-2020